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The authors go on to analyse these disparate environments, and suggest how in each case corporate culture acts as an agent of educational change. They find two major consequences stemming from the culture of each school. First, each culture gives expression to a normative goal that aims at shaping the way students understand themselves and from issues of ministry practice. Second, each provides a "cultural tool kit" of knowledge, practices, and skills that students use to construct strategies of action for the various problems and issues that will confront them as pastors or in other forms of ministry. In the concluding chapters, the authors explore the implications of their findings for theories of institutional culture and professional socialization and for interpreting the state of religion in America. They identify some of the practical dilemmas that theological and other professional schools currently face, and reflect on how their findings might contribute to their solution. This accessible, thought-provoking study will not only illuminate the structure and process by which culture educates and forms, but also provide invaluable insights into important dynamics of American religious life.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
1997-10-16
Publication Date:
1997-10-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0195114930
ISBN13:
9780195114935
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Weight:
659 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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