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Those Who Can, Teach: Teaching as Christian Vocation is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many aspiring academics, the transition from doctoral student to classroom teacher is a challenging one. The classroom culture, the needed pedagogical skills, and the expected level and type of work are significantly different in the two environments. Nevertheless, most doctoral students go on to teach in undergraduate or seminary classrooms. To prepare the PhD students at McMaster Divinity...

itself. Otherwise, an institution runs the risk of having no cohesive educational philosophy, but being merely a composite of varied philosophies according to programs. The modern university often suffers from such a dilemma. The modern university was founded on the principle of it being a place where universal knowledge was held, developed, and promulgated. However, the university of today—with its various areas of specialization, budgetary constraints, and student demand—often sacrifices universal
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