Challenges and Promises of Quality Assurance in Theological Education

Multicontextual and Ecumenical Inquiries

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Quality of Theological Education Reconsidered
by Namsoon Kang

Standards for Quality Assurance in Africa: Enhancing Quality Training in African Independent Churches
by John Gichimu

Standard of Quality Assurance in Asia
by Ravi Tiwari

Standards for Quality Assurance and Improvement in Europe
by Reinhold Bernhardt

The Theological Education in Europe Today: Challenges & Promises
by Petros Vassiliadis

Quality Assurance in Higher and Theological Education in the United States
by David Esterline

Towards A Common Charter on Quality in Theological Education, Theological Perspectives for Ecumenical Guidelines on Common Quality Standards: A Paper from ETE-WCC
by Dietrich Werner

Mainstreaming Gender in Theological Institutions in Francophone Africa: Perspective from Cameroon
by Priscille Djomhoué

Assuring the Quality of Institutional Practice: A Case of Africa
by Simon K. Dossou

Bibliography

Appendix A

Group Photo

WOCATI 2011 Consultation Communiqué Johannesburg, South Africa, 4 July – 8 July,2011

Listener Reports

Reflections on the “Challenges and Promises of Quality Assurance in Theological Education: Ecumenical and Multi-Contextual Inquiries”
by Lester Edwin J. Ruiz

Listening report of the World Conference of Associations of Theological Institutions (WOCATI) Consultation Johannesburg (South Africa), 2011
by Isabel Apawo Phiri

Appendix B

WOCATI Consultation Schedule

Appendix C

Executive Members/Staff

Consultation Participants

Invitees Unable to Attend