2004 Meeting Theme Bibliography

Contextual Pedagogies: Teaching Context as Religious Text
November 5-7, 2004
Brown Palace-Comfort Inn Complex 
Denver, Colorado

A Beginning Bibliography for the Meeting

Pedagogy and Curriculum Design

Bowers, C. A. and David J. Flinders. Responsive Teaching: An Ecological Approach to Classroom Patterns of Language, Culture, and Thought. Vol. 4 of Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought, ed. Jonas F. Soltis. New York: Teachers College Press, 1990. 

Brookfield, Stephen D. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995. 

hook, bell, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Mezirow, Jack. “Contemporary Paradigms of Learning.”  Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3., (Spring 1996): 158-173. 

Mezirow, Jack.  “How Critical Reflection Triggers Transformative Learning.” In Merriam, S.B. and Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass: 1990.  

Schön, Donald A. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action. New York: Basic Books, 1983.   

---. Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.  

Silverman, Sharon L. and Martha E. Casazza. Learning and Development: Making Connections to Enhance Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.  

Contextual Theological Education

Banks, Robert. Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Bevans, Stephen B. Models of Contextual Theology. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1992.

Browning, Don S. A Fundamental Practical Theology: Descriptive and Strategic Proposals.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.

Carroll, Jackson W. Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Chopp, Rebecca. Saving Work.  Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995.

Farley, Edward. Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.

Fiorenza, Francis Schuessler. "Foundational Theology and Theological Education," Theological Education.  20 (Spring 1984): 107-24.

Fiorenza, Francis Schuessler, “Thinking Theologically about Theological Education,” Theological Education.  24, Supplement 2 (1988): 89-119.

Hough, Joseph and John Cobb, Christian Identity and Theological Education.  Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1985.

---. and Barbara G Wheeler. Beyond Clericalism: the Congregation As a Focus for Theological Education.  Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1988.

Johnson, Luke T. and Charlotte McDaniel,  “Teaching Theology in Context,” The Christian Century.  117, no 4 (F 2-9 2000), p. 118-122.

Kelsey, David, Between Athens and Berlin.  Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1993.

---.To Understand God Truly: What's Theological About a Theological School.  Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

Polkinghorne, D. E., Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of Inquiry.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1983. 

Rhodes, Lynn and Nancy Richardson "Contextualization of Theological Education" in Envisioning the New City: A Reader on Urban Ministry.  Ed. Eleanor Scott Meyers. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

Sobrino, Jon, The True Church and the Poor.  Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1984.

Stackhouse, Max L., "Contextualization and Theological Education, Theological Education. 23 (Autumn 1986): 67-82.

Tracy, David, Blessed Rage for Order. New York: Seabury Press, 1975.

Wheeler, Barbara G. and Edward Farley, eds. Shifting Boundaries: Contextual Approaches to the Structure of Theological Education.  1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991.