Daily Wrap Up Reports
At the end of the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions (July 5 & 6, respectively), the participants were invited to consider the key themes from the sessions of that day and to share a key word or phrase that touched them or that summed up the day’s proceedings for them. These are their responses for the two days:
Tuesday, July 5. Theme I: “What Constitutes Quality in Theological Education”
- “Remember the future.”
- Rupture and repetition.
- Self-critical accountability.
- Lookism.
- Theological educators are thought-leaders.
- Transformative theological education.
- Contextualization does not equal close-up.
- Need to share more with churches about theological education.
- Overcoming parochialism in theological education – includes world perspective.
- To be in context with other contexts.
- Hybrid identity / bricolage.
- Challenge to think beyond borders.
- Hypersensitivity to the marginalized.
- Preservation-innovation.
Wednesday, July 6. Theme II: Standards for Quality Assurance: Resources, Processes, and Outcomes
- Do with fidelity.
- Partnership/collaboration.
- Rediscovering/reaffirming self.
- Strengthening institutions at their regions.
- Networking E-resources. Finding resource persons.
- Crisis or promise of global solidarity for theological education.
- Theological education between academia and the church.
- Fragmentation, isolation, or common platform.
- Family (like WOCATI) important to thinking our common goal.
- Sincerity in our way of working.
- Making sense of local experience in context of global experience.
- Lip-service to, and tokenization of, the marginalized in curriculum.
- Sharing to serve the church.
- Togetherness leads to mutual revival.
- To the Global North: What are you doing here? Are you the ex-boyfriend or the woman who stayed? (Reference to the film White Wedding.)
- Optimism: We are not alone.
- Positive tension: academic vs. spiritual formation.
- Encounter.
- Reaching out to my neighbors.
- Mutuality and cooperation despite differences.
- Development.
- Significance of “doing” the “glocal” context.
⤓ 2011 Consultation - Daily Wrap-Up Reports - English, PDF