![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul, Minnesota explored the connections among the above areas of inquiry by inviting three plenary speakers who were not self-described missiologists but were nonetheless sympathetic to the goals of our professional society. Our conference on June 19-20 at The University of Northwestern in St. I benefited myself from the influence of Professor Ted Ward at Michigan State University even after he left that institution in the courses and programs related to the field of international development which still bore his imprint. Other leaders in adult education such as Paulo Freire, Parker Palmer, Susan Daloz Parks, and Ted Ward have likewise made important contributions in educational theory and practice and have, in different ways, transformed the teaching of mission. Among individual contributors to educational theory, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) stands out as perhaps the most controversial critic of missionary practice, but his writings on the philosophy of education most famously articulated in Deschooling Society (1971) continue to be influential. The method of “shared inquiry” in the discussion of classic texts made popular by the Great Books Foundation also merits further investigation as missiologists discern together which texts are most generative for the teaching of key themes in mission. The Society for Intercultural Training, Education, and Research (SIETAR) shares similar goals to the APM, and some missiologists contribute to this professional society. The “scholarship of teaching and learning” has grown considerably in the past two decades and now includes its own professional society (The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) and a number of academic journals. The teaching of missiology has benefited from a number of different movements and individuals from related fields which have constructed and critiqued educational theory. The 2014 Annual Meeting of the APM explored mission pedagogy (or, more precisely, andragogy) with a particular focus on how the teaching of missiology engages with educational theorists and teaching methods which include but also extend beyond missiology’s cognate fields of history, biblical studies, anthropology, and theology. ![]()
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