Bishop Grosseteste University

Drawing on data provided by 1476 newly ordained Anglican clergy from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales who completed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and an 80-item battery of type-related prayer preference items, this study tested the thesis advanced by Michael and Norrisey that the Apollonian (NF) temperament is associated with a distinctive emphasis in prayer and spirituality. The analysis identified seventeen prayer preference items that were rated significantly more highly by NF participants. These items produced a revised Scale of Apollonian Prayer Preferences with an alpha of .79 (offering internal consistency reliability), recorded significantly higher scores among NF participants (offering construct validity), and resonated with characteristics of Augustinian prayer and spirituality (offering content validity). These data replicate previously reported findings in support of a link between the NF temperament and Augustinian prayer preferences. Our findings have implications for NF clergy both in their own prayers and in their ministry with others.

Compassion was a theme of the COVID-19 pandemic era scholarship. The traumatic nature of the pandemic experience for many led to a greater humanising discourse around education, alongside the need to be embracing pedagogies of compassion. This scoping review investigates how compassionate pedagogy is conceptualised and realised in contemporary higher education contexts. Through a systematic search across electronic databases, 25 relevant articles were identified. Findings suggest that there was no consistent definition of compassionate pedagogy in the included literature. The authors synthesised these studies to propose a working definition which has four key components: a noticing of suffering, distress or disadvantage in the learning environment; a commitment to address or mitigate the suffering, distress, or disadvantage; the promotion of wellbeing and flourishing; and a concern for the whole student as a person beyond the cognitive role of education alone. The review explores the realisation of compassionate pedagogy at various levels, including institutional, program (curriculum), module, and individual lecturer perspectives. Further research should investigate the perspectives of students on how compassionate pedagogy can be realised. Institutional perspectives would also be beneficial to understand how compassionate values, policies, and leadership cascade down to the student and staff experiences of compassionate pedagogy in the classroom.

Drawing on data provided by 207 Anglican and Methodist ministry training candidates, who completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and an 80-item battery of type-related prayer preference items, this study tested the thesis advanced by Michael and Norrisey that the Apollonian (NF) Temperament is associated with Augustinian prayer and spirituality. From the battery of eighty items, the analysis identified eleven items rated more highly by NF participants. These items produced a scale with a satisfactory alpha of .81 (offering internal consistency reliability). Consideration of these items alongside the secondary literature on Augustinian spirituality, and Augustine’s own account in his Confessions , showed that they mapped broadly onto the characteristics of Augustinian prayer and spirituality (offering content validity). These data support the hypothesized link between the Apollonian (NF) Temperament and Augustinian prayer and spirituality.

ABSTRACT The mission and ministry of the Word on Fire Institute and of Bishop Barron focus interesting questions regarding the ongoing connection between Catholic identity and charismatic influence. The present empirical enquiry, rooted in personality theory and the psychology of religious orientation, explored the profile of 490 participants attending an event in central London animated by Bishop Barron. Participants completed measures of Catholic orientation and charismatic orientation alongside the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales. The data demonstrated that the majority of participants were firmly rooted within the Catholic tradition, with a minority also rooted in the charismatic tradition. For these participants the two streams were complementary and mutually supportive. Charismatic predisposition was associated with emotional stability, with a preference for feeling (rather than thinking), and with a preference for perceiving (rather than judging). Attention is drawn to ways in which preferences for feeling and perceiving may be perceived by those who prefer thinking and judging.

ABSTRACT This paper reports on a short project undertaken with student English teachers during their one year Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) teaching course that considered the potential inclusion of the novella The Woman of Colour into their teaching. The research considers how the student teachers received the text and the value, issues and questions that they felt it might bring to their teaching. It reflects on short lesson segments created by the participants to include the text in their teaching of KS3 or KS4 classes. The inclusion of literary works by women and by Black writers, and the power, agency and autonomy of the female, non-white protagonists portrayed, was contextualised within wider societal education and values.