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- Title
The Subtle Temptations of State Sponsored Theological Education: A New Zealand Perspective.
- Authors
Meadowcroft, Tim
- Abstract
Over the past fifteen years in New Zealand, theology has come in from the tertiary educational cold in various ways. One of the results or reasons for this has been willingness on the part of the state to accredit and provide funding for theological education and research. This has taken place largely through a compliance system of accreditation and resource allocation. The result has been academic recognition and a precarious financial boon for theology and some theological institutions and their students. But little attention has been paid to the epistemological and pedagogical temptations of compliance. Drawing on the recent experience of the writer, this article seeks to identify a number of the subtle temptations posed by state sponsored theological education and research.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; RELIGIOUS education; THEOLOGICAL seminaries; EDUCATIONAL finance; EDUCATION research; THEORY of knowledge; RESOURCE allocation; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; ACCREDITATION
- Publication
Teaching Theology & Religion, 2007, Vol 10, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
1368-4868
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9647.2007.00308.x