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research about professional or informal preparation for educational ministry in school and church settings
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A Curriculum Database for Continuing Education for Ministers in the Colombia-Venezuela Union Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Tertiary-Lifelong"Background and Purpose of the Study: The Seventh-day Adventist Church is seeking research data on which to base the planning and development of efficient continuing education for ministry programs geographically and culturally adapted to the territories... -
A needs assessment of a continuing education program for Korean pastors in the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists Tertiary-LifelongProblem: Continuing education for NAD Korean SDA pastor’s ministry has been conducted since 1981. To make this continuing education program relevant a needs assessment was necessary. This study attempted to assess the specific needs of Korean... -
A proposed training program for Seventh-day Adventist ministerial interns in the Scandinavian countries Tertiary-LifelongWherever the Seventh-day Adventist church with its professional ministry desires to improve its effectiveness, the matter of field education for interns as well as theological education is of importance. Somehow, guidelines and formative education for the... -
A Quantitative Comparative Study of Employee Engagement Among Full-Time Seventh-day Adventist Pastors in the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists and Its Relationship to Level of Participation in Annual Pastoral Continuing Education (CE) Tertiary-LifelongThis research aimed to determine the relationship between pastoral CE and employee engagement to guide policy implementation as well as future efforts for pastoral professional development within the Adventist organization. Studies conducted in the North American... -
A Study of Selected Variables Dealing with Continuing Education Interests of Seventh-Day Adventist Pastors and Judicatory in the North American Division Tertiary-Lifelong"Background and Purpose of the Study: The study grew out of an increased Seventh-day Adventist interest in continuing education for ministry in the church's North American Division. This interest had generally been accompanied by a lack of current... -
An Analysis of Teacher Satisfaction in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Schools in Zimbabwe Tertiary-LifelongThe purpose of this study was to analyze perceptions of the level of satisfaction on factors deemed important to teachers in Seventh-day Adventist church schools in Zimbabwe. This research study also considered the pattern of teacher turnover in the schools.... -
Analysis of Some Influences on Literacy as Observed by Facilitators of Literacy in Cambodia Tertiary-Lifelong"Cambodia is a country that lags behind many of its neighbors in literacy. Seventh-day Adventist church workers have found that offering adult literacy classes is one good way to introduce Buddhists to Christianity. Many of the literacy students are actually... -
Continuing education in music ministry of the Atlantic Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist church LifelongPrevious studies of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) music have explored theological foundations, historical roots, and administrative challenges of the music ministry. However, these past studies did not assess the continuing education of the SDA music ministers,... -
Developing Ministry's Other Half - Theological Education for Theology Student Wives at Pacific Adventist College TertiaryOver the last hundred and fifty years there have been some significant changes to the role of minister’s wives. Interestingly, each minister’s wife also cycles through several phases in her own life. She is in a unique position. Her context raises... -
Ellen White and the Harmonious Development Concept TertiaryFifty quotations from Ellen White mentioning “harmonious development” were studied to gain a greater understanding of her meaning of that phrase. Taylor includes practical implementation techniques for increasing harmonious development in curricular... -
Evaluation of the Formal and Informal Curricula of the North American Division Evangelism Institute LifelongPurpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct a formal program evaluation of the North American Division Evangelism Institute (NADEI). The goal of NADEI is to equip pastors and laity for ministry. It developed over 30 years, and has presented formal... -
Factors related to Adult Degree Program completion at Atlantic Union College TertiaryProblem: The Adult Degree Program at Atlantic Union College has for the past 34 years instituted innovations and practices, following new trends in adult education, to make it more accessible and viable in helping students grow intellectually and professionally... -
Forms, Foci and Forces - The Need for Overseas Pre-Service Teacher Professional Experiences TertiaryDiscusses the benefits of pre-service teaching experiences in developing nations, rather than in more sheltered situations. -
Forms, Foci, and Forces - The Need for Overseas Pre-service Teacher Professional Experiences TertiaryThis article uses narrative inquiry through the lens of responsive narratives of other researchers to examine the impact of an overseas professional teaching experience on 20 pre-service teachers. The study finds personal and professional growth greater than... -
Good? Different? Assessing the Idea of an Atypical Clinical Teaching Model of Initial Teacher Education, Using SWOT Analysis Tertiary“Is a Clinical Teaching Model, characterised by a school-embedded, employment-integrated, alternative mode, an opportune path for initial teacher education? A [Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats] Analysis is used to address this question... -
Manual training - Its role in the development of the Seventh-day Adventist educational system Kindergarten-LifelongThe purpose of this study was to examine the history of manual training within the Seventh-day Adventist educational system and determine its relationship to the development of manual training in the public schools of America. consideration was also given... -
Planning a Needs Assessment Based Approach to Continuing Education Programs for Seventh-day Adventist Clergy in the Eastern Africa Division Tertiary-LifelongProblem: This study attempts to determine the extent to which the needs-assessment-based approach to educational planning can be validated and used in planning continuing-education programs for the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) ministers serving in the... -
Responding to K-12 Implementation - A Case Study of an Adventist Secondary School in the Philippines Kindergarten-Grade 12In the Philippines, adjusting from a 10-year basic education cycle to a K-12 structure has “presented several challenges such as teachers’ training and deployment and infrastructure requirements to Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools that are... -
School Leader Preparation and Development Programs - What Teachers Want Kindergarten-Grade 12This article seeks to contribute to the literature on school leader preparation and development programs by “identifying and discussing elements that current faith-based education system teachers would like to see embedded in the creation of aspirant... -
Science teachers’ conceptualisation of professional reflective practice - A reconstruction of the impact of pre-service interaction with lecturing staff TertiaryThis study explores the formative basis of the professional reflective practice of in-service science teachers through their reconstruction of their pre-service interaction with lecturing staff. The study reports through the voice of graduates of the Bachelor... -
Seminars for professional improvement - A pilot project in continuing education for ministers TertiaryProblem: For most of the ministers who are employed by the Seventh-day Adventist church in the Republic of South Africa, there is little opportunity for continued education beyond the B.Th. level. Each year the limited resources of the bursary committee... -
Strategies for Seventh-day Adventist Theological Education in the South Pacific Islands TertiaryProblem: Theological education is an important concern of the Seventh day Adventist Church in the South Pacific Islands. Current concerns include ascertaining the best type of theological education for the Adventist Church in this Region; determining... -
The empirical development of an instructional product for the training of Seventh-day Adventist literature evangelists Tertiary-LifelongProblem: This study addressed the training needs of SDA literature evangelists through an empirically developed curriculum. Method: The instructional product development method of Baker and Schutz (1971) served as the basis for this... -
Theological education in context - A pilot extension program for the Seventh-day Adventist church in Rwanda Tertiary-LifelongProblem: One of the most important concerns that presents itself to the Adventist Church in Rwanda is how to adequately cope with the rapid growth of new members. There are too few pastors equipped to care for the growing membership. It was the purpose... -
Wellbeing Education for Educators Kindergarten-Tertiary"This study examined the impact of a 10-week multimodal wellbeing intervention (The Lift Project) on pre-service teachers’ personal wellbeing and their perceptions of the value of the intervention when embedded into their course of study." -
Why Did My Mentor Teacher Only Give Me a Credit? Tertiary"The placement of pre-service teachers in schools to integrate theoretical learning with practical experience is an integral component of many tertiary education courses. Issues with both the reliability and validity of assessment grades in a workplace... -
Worship Leadership and Preaching for Adventist Medical Students Tertiary-LifelongThis Ministry Focus Paper develops a class for teaching worship theology, practice, and leadership, and preaching theology and practice, to Adventist medical students at Loma Linda University (LLU). LLU is a Seventh-day Adventist health sciences university...