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Learning
is a lifetime activity, from birth to death, a constant process of growing
and becoming. |
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There
are levels of learning as well as kinds of learning. |
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Learning
is experiential and to learn requires practice. |
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Ministry
experiences and occupational experiences provide learning that is as valid,
perhaps even more valid, than traditional campus-confined, classroom-based
instruction, and this life-learning can be accurately and responsibly measured
for its academic equivalency. |
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Academic
credit should be given not only for understanding the criteria of competency,
but also for demonstrating actual competence itself. |
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Traditional
systems of education are too restrictive for many ministry-focused people. |
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Non-traditional
systems of education are based on a belief in freedom of choice and on
the belief that a range of positive options are attendant upon the exercise
of individual rights. Non-traditional systems assert that the individual
must be able to choose to grow, develop, learn, and use his talents and
potentials, and that he deserves responsible recognition for his effort. |
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The
center of the educational system should be the learner and not the teacher. |
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People
learn more effectively when they are actively involved in the development
of learning goals, the selection of subject matter content, the selection
of learning methods and techniques, and the setting of their own appropriate
pace. |
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Social
justice dictates that all learning, regardless of where it takes place,
be treated as equitably as possible in a society which values and encourages
individual knowledge and competence. |
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The
world of ministry experience blends with the world of education to produce
an integrated living/learning society. |
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Knowledge
is valid regardless of its source. |
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It
makes little difference where or how learning takes place, at age 20 or
50 or 75. What is important is that it does take place and under
conditions appropriate to the learner. |
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Each
individual is entitled to equal opportunity for recognition of equal accomplishment
and ability. Therapon University prohibits discrimination against
current or prospective students on the basis of race, color, sex, religion,
national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic.
The University does not by this non-discrimination statement disclaim any
right it might otherwise have to maintain its commitment to its Christian
identity or the doctrines inherent in the Bible. |
