EM020-812 - Developing Leaders Across Cultures

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • evangelism missiolUnit Discipline

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code EM703-4.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, Christian cross cultural leadership development

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship on Christian cross cultural leadership development

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship to design contextualized approaches to the development of cross cultural Christian leaders

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on Christian cross cultural leadership development

C. Be in a position to

Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Developing Leaders Across Cultures’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

Biblical foundations: selection and preparation of leaders; divine activity in emerging leaders’ lives; Moses, Nehemiah, Jesus, Peter, Timothy; characteristics of a leader; fruit and gifts of the Spirit; servant role.

Concepts of Christian leadership, cultural influences on leadership, and ways of developing leaders: leadership styles in various (including Western) cultural contexts; cultural assumptions influencing leadership; traditional assumptions about and patterns of leadership in various cultures; questions of selection, training, credibility, authority, acceptance, age and tenure;

Ways of training leaders: formal, non-formal, and informal, e.g.  discipleship, mentoring, apprenticeship, schooling

Developing a personal philosophy of leadership development across cultures

Designing training approaches: needs assessment; outcomes; identifying the right people culturally and biblically; formal and non-formal options; contextualising in the light of social structures and cultural expectations;

Evaluating training approaches in the light of biblical principles and models and insights from intercultural studies

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

Prescribed: No prescribed texts

 

Indicative:

Banks, R. Reviewing Leadership: A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004).

Bevans, S., Chai, T., Jennings, N., Jorgensen, K., and Werner, D. (eds.), Reflecting on and Equipping for Christian Mission (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2015).

Burns, J., Shoup, J., Simmons, D. (eds.), Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014).   

Brynjolfson, R., and Lewis, J. (eds.), Integral Ministry Training: Design and Evaluation (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2006).

Dorfman, P., Javidan, M., Hanges, P., Dastmalchian, A., and House, R., “GLOBE: A Twenty Year Journey into the Intriguing World of Culture and Leadership. Journal of World Business 47(2012):504-518.

Ferris, R., “Ministry Education for the Global Church,” Evangelical Missions Quarterly 52 (2016): 6-13.

Cook, M., Haskell, R., Julian, R., and Tanchanpongs, N. (eds.), Local Theology for the Global Church (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2010).

De Neui, P. (ed.), Developing Indigenous Leaders: Lessons in Mission from Buddhist Asia. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2013.

Gupta, P., and Lingenfelter. S., Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision: Training Leaders for a Church-Planting Movement. Winona Lake, IN: BMH Books, 2006.

Hibbert, E. and Hibbert R., Training Missionaries: Principles and Possibilities (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2016).  

Hibbert, E., and Hibbert, R., Intercultural Discipling: Walking Alongside Disciples on the Jesus Road (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, in press).

Hoppe, M., “Cross-Cultural Issues in the Development of Leaders,” In Handbook of Leadership Development, ed. McCauley, C., and Van Velsor, E., 331-360 (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2004).

Hofstede, G., Hofstede, G. and Minkov, M., Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind (New York: McGraw Hill, 2010).

Lingenfelter, S., Leading Cross-Culturally (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2008)

Lingenfelter, J., and Lingenfelter, S., Teaching Cross-Culturally (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003).

Merriam, S. (ed.), Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing (Malabar, FL: Krieger, 2007).

O’Connor, P., Reproducible Pastoral Training (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2006).

Payne, I., “Reproducing Leaders through Mentoring,” Journal of Christian Education 52(2009): 51-65

Plueddemann, J., Leading Across Cultures: Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2009).

Shaw, P., Transforming Theological Education: A Practical Handbook for Integrative Learning (Carlisle: Langham Global Library, 2014).

Ward, T., “Servants, Leaders, Tyrants” Common Ground Journal 10 (2012): 62-72.

Ward, T., “Evaluating Metaphors of Education,” Common Ground Journal 11 (2013): 13-15.

 

Classics:

Bruce, A.B., The Training of the Twelve (Charleston, SC: Createspace Publishing, 2012).

Coleman, R., The Master Plan of Evangelism (Grand Rapids, MI: Spire, 2010).

Sanders, J.O., Spiritual Leadership (Chicago: Moody Press, 2007).