Embracing diversity : formative christian higher education and the challenge of pluralisms

• Other Authors: Miner, Maureen (Editor), Beilharz, Kirsty, 1971- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2023]
• Subjects: Christian universities and colleges.; Pluralism.; Christian education.; Education, Higher > Moral and ethical aspects.; Religion > Education.; Educational: Religious studies: Christianity.; Religious instruction.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806601714
• DOI: 10.1108/9798887303314
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) : illustrations

"Christian schools and colleges that include spiritual formation and Christian maturity within their mission are facing challenges. The challenge of being a Christian college within a secular society is well-recognized. There are intellectual clashes of secular versus religious worldviews to be...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Maureen Miner and Kirsty Beilharz
• Part I: Advancing understandings of formation in higher education
• Chapter 1. Maintaining mission in multireligious contexts of christian higher education: A relational pluralistic model / Maureen Miner and Sunaina Gowan
• Chapter 2. Trans-disciplinary interpretations of formation in christian higher education: Navigating academic diversity, cultural pluralism, and locating identity for the questing student / Kirsty Beilharz, Christine Carroll, Ian Eddie, Sunaina Gowan, Dion Khlentzos, Maureen Miner, Mark Seton, and Leonardo Veliz
• Chapter 3. Formational outcomes for social imaginaries / Peter Carblis
• Chapter 4. Sleeping giant awake! Why restoring creation and new creation to the gospel can reform the world through our students / Christopher Gilbert
• Part II: Student and staff formation in diverse contexts
• Chapter 5. Plagiarism, poverty, paucity, and pastoral care: Why do students cheat and how can we help them not to become victims of an ecology of vulnerability? Kirsty beilharz, carissa henriksson, and peter stiles
• Chapter 6. Abrahamization of hospitality services to achieve christian formation of staff in the Australian hospitality workplace / John Ayoub and Daniel Boland
• Chapter 7. Christian higher education providers and graduate attributes: Tokenistic or purposeful? Jennie bickmore-brand, narelle coetzee, jacqueline greentree, and craig murison
• Part III: Formation through counseling training and therapy practice
• Chapter 8. Educating within christian and secular worldviews: Implications for counselor training / Dion Khlentzos
• Chapter 9. Conflicting frameworks? Christian faith, psychological science, and contemporary counseling practice in a postmodern world / Samantha Smith
• Chapter 10. Countering psychological consequences of harmful christian formation using spiritually modified schema therapy: A case study of paradigm clash / Maureen Miner. About the Contributors.