Contextual Essay

Reflection On Contextual Theology
A THOUGHT PAPER ON MY UNDERSTANDING AND REFLECTION OF THE BIBLICAL
FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY BASED ON THE FIRST WEEK'S
LEARNING
1. INTRODUCTION
Our contextual theology should have biblical/theological grounding if it is to be a true Christian
theology. The foundation where we lay our theology, therefore, has great significance in our
theology. For example, if our theology is build on the ancient Greek philosophy which rises in the
6th Century BC, and which continues throughout the Hellenistic period, and then it is possible that
it will influence our reflection and articulation in terms of ontology, metaphysics, logic, ethics,
aesthetics and so on even when we approach the Bible or theology. Enlightenment Theology which
is built on the secular philosophy is one such evidence where at the centre of their theology seems
solely personal reasoning with no reference to the Bible. As...show more content...
CONCLUSION
It is imperative to take all the three pillars–creation, incarnation and eschatology together as an
integrated biblical foundation for constructing contextual theology. Taking one separate will create
an incomplete or one–sided theology. I believe there will be error if our theology starts and orients
with creation alone. There will perhaps be a tendency where much stress will be given to creation,
which would lead to much focus on general revelation. General revelation, I believe, is helpful only
when it leads people to the specific revelation, Jesus Christ or in Bediako's words a pedagogue that
leads to Christ.
Theology that starts with or whose orientation is only on incarnation or redemption will probably
have tendencies to disregard the context and so culture. We might feel the need to discard all the
cultural practices as demonic and change with a new Christian culture through Christ. The task of
contextual theology should be that it will enhance the good in culture without discarding them, and
attempt to right the wrong until they reach perfection at the
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Cultural Contextual Literacy
Cultural Contextual Literacy is the teaching, learning, and understanding of the culture and context
of psychology. While some of the paradigms deal with thoughts and feelings that are engrained in
our thoughts and feelings at birth, other paradigms deal with the way we perceive our own unique
environments.
The heredity–environment debate is one of the oldest philosophical issues within psychology. It's the
scientific, cultural, and philosophical debate about whether human culture, behavior and personality
are caused primarily by heredity or environment. Heredity refers to all of the genes and hereditary
factors that influence who we are– from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics.
Environment refers to all the environmental...show more content...
"Posttraumatic stress disorder is characterized by a rapid heart rate and feelings of anxiety and
helplessness that are caused by a traumatic experience" (i.e. Rathus, pg. 310, 2015). Because this
disorder usually presents itself following a scarring event, we know that it is classified as an
environmental caused disorder on the hereditary–environmental

Contextual Family Therapy Model Contextual family therapy model is a transgenerational mode that
is based on the assumption that a family system behavioral patterns are mostly developed from one
generation to another generation. This particular model is more of a distinct type model that is
considered to be closely compared or associated to the psychoanalytic family model (Gehart, 2014).
The major assumption for change in the contextual approach model, is to help all in the family
system to establish a greater balance in each relationship through the intervention of fairness, trust,
loyalty, and mutual support. These interventions is considered to be the focal point for the contextual
family therapy model (Gangamma, Bartle–Haring &...show more content...
This process can position the communication process for exoneration and forgiveness which give a
high probability in re–establishing a balance relationship. Establishing relational truth and
constructive entitlement which is guided by the therapist, the wrongdoer within the family system
can give insight to show evident of the hurt he/she has caused. This can lead the wrongdoer to the
process of relational trust moving to a level of restoration and mending the broken relationship
(Mauldin, & Anderson, 1998). I believe what make contextual therapy model approach different
from some of the other MFT approaches is that the contextual family model is more of an influential
approach. Also, the contextual family model deals with examining the intrapsychic and the
interpersonal dynamic to raise the awareness and give insight to the client, to create new ways to
behave and relate to others ( Gehart, 2014). Through the communication and processing, the therapist
helps the client and family to govern different aspect of family structure, beliefs, power, and
hierarchy. This model searches for intergenerational balance of justice and trustworthiness in family
based on the concept of relational ethics and forgiveness in helping conflicted families to rebuild a
level

Contextual Factors Essay
Running head: WEEK FOUR ASSIGNMENT ONE Contextual Factors Two examples of contextual
factors that influence a curriculum Contextual factors can be defined as any situations, forces or
circumstances that may exist within or outside a nursing school and has to probability of influencing
the school and the different programs. These factors are divided into two group's internal and
external factors. The internal contextual factors are those that originate within the institution such as
history, philosophy, culture, finance, programs, and the schools infrastructure. External contextual
factors are those that originate outside the school and have the ability to affect the curriculum. Some
factors are demographic, professional...show more content...
Human resources are a major category that falls under this area. The faculties which make up part of
the human resources and, a vital part of the infrastructure are a key to the curriculum development
and for successful implementation(Iwasiw, et al., 2009). It is essential that this process be managed
by faculty, because they share a major responsibility in teaching students and their learning so greatly
depend on the quality of the curriculum (Wolf, Hughes & Baron–Nixon, 2007). All the different
members that make up the faculty should be considered, whether they are clinicians, preceptors,
guest speakers or support staffs, because of their involvement, perspectives and contributions that
they may have regarding curriculum development. These staffs are essential, because they aid in the
smooth day to day function of the school and the program. Students are vital because without them
there would be no need for a nursing school and thus no curriculum. The physical resources must
also be considered, because the space for classroom, technological aids, and library resources must
be sufficient so that the needs of the students are matched with the curriculum (Iwasiw, et al., 2009).
Prior to the revision, or development of any curriculum, the curriculum developers must carefully
consider several factors in

Contextual Therapy Model
Ivan Boszormenyi–Nagy, psychiatrist and family therapist, is most well–known for being the creator
of Contextual Therapy. Contextual therapists emphasize the ways in which generations are
inherently bound to each other, while also considering intrapsychic and interpersonal elements.
Unlike many other treatment modalities, contextual therapists consider relational ethics, or fairness
in relationships. Every relationship has a ledger of indebtedness and entitlements. The ledger is
balanced when the relationship is fundamentally built on equitability. The ledger includes both
legacy, acquired by family dynamics and experiences, and the record of an individual's accumulated
merit by contributing to someone else's welfare (Boszormenyi–Nagy & Krasner, 1986)....show more
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According to the Contextual Therapy model, people cannot be removed from their generational
rootedness. They bring invisible loyalties extending across generations, even when starting a new
family unit. Invisible loyalty is a state in which a child unconsciously tries to pay a debt to his
parents, even to his own detriment (Goldenberg, 2012). The professor gave us an example of a
parent who struggles with alcoholism, and puts responsibilities, such as caring for a three year
old child on an oldest child, who is only six years old. Even though the six year old is a child
herself, she feels obligated to care for the younger one when their mother is drinking and out of
control. When growing up, that same person may feel that she needs to care for others more than it
is necessary, and may get involved with someone who struggles with their life (drug addiction,
alcoholism, etc.), which will lead to a disabled relationships. It hit me right there like a lightning
during the

Contextual Therapy
Common Settings and Populations Contextual therapy (CT) can be utilized in a wide range of
settings. It can be used in individual therapy, family therapy, and marital or couple's therapy
(Friedman, 1989; Temple, 1997; Mauldin, 2003; Gangamma, Bartle–Haring, & Glebova, 2012). It
has also been found to be effective in treating multiple personality disorders, substance use, juvenile
delinquency, victims of homicide, adolescent boys in group homes, terminal illness, suicide
prevention, chronic physical illness, sexual identity and dysfunction, adolescent mothers in foster
care, and survivors of traumatic events such as the Holocaust (Friedman, 1989; Temple, 1997;
Mauldin, 2003; Soyez, et al., 2004; Gangamma et al., 2012; Wilson, Glebova, Davis,...show more
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To measure their satisfaction, the RDAS evaluates and differentiates the couple's dyadic adjustment
in both distressed and nondistressed relationships (Gangamma et al., 2012). Lower scores on this
scale indicate greater relationship distress while higher scores indicate greater relationship
satisfaction (Gangamma et al., 2012). Thus, both of these measures may aid the therapist in
determining each partner's perception of unfairness and satisfaction within their relationship
(Gangamma et al., 2012). These measures also provide the therapist with a greater understanding of
where each partner stands in regards to their relationship. Moreover, this greater understanding of the
relationship can help the therapist determine a good starting point for contextual couple's

Contextual Analysis Paper
1. Intrinsic: precision, lack of bias, trustworthiness, and reputation. 2. Accessibility: access, and
safety. 3. Contextual: relevancy, worth, timeliness, completeness and amount of data. 4.
Representational: interpretability, clear, brief representation, and consistent representation. (Lillrank
, 2003) .

Contextual Theory The overall purpose of this brief paper is to characterize the main concepts, main
techniques, and any current research that supports contextual therapy in relation to contextual
theory. While the purpose of this exercise was to demonstrate knowledge of counseling theories not
addressed in class sessions, contextual therapy (which has also been referred to as contextual family
therapy in prior literature) is not per se a theory as much as it is a method of therapy based on Ivan
Boszormenyi–Nagy's contextual theory. In his determination that there is more to understanding an
individual's challenges in relation to others, Boszormenyi–Nagy designed contextual therapy to draw
attention to his empirically–based findings from...show more content...
Excluding such information could lead to misrepresenting the factors by which the client
experiences the world and bankrupt the influence of culture on development. Boszormenyi–Nagy
stretches facts to include those details about world views that are a product of our own created
reality that is culminated by choice and agency. While a child certainly does not have a choice into
what family they are born into, the parents do have a choice into how they will interact with each
other around that child, such that, inconsistencies or neglect of that healthy relationship could create
for the child a fact that unhealthy conflict is normal or that they must choose sides of affection
(Goldenthal, 2005). Since there is an underlying foundation of psychotherapy present, contextual
therapy accounts for facts that may be present that the client may not be able to bring to their
conscience or that they may be unwilling to acknowledge that were out of their control, but
nevertheless, still occurred (Ruzgyte, 2011).
Psychology. The functioning of the person within was also heavily regarded by Boszormenyi–Nagy,
such that his reflections from psychoanalytical theories would illuminate the need to connect the
parts of the individual psyche: cognitive abilities; emotional functioning; instinctual drives; internal
conflicts; moral and intellectual development; and concepts of object relations theory

Contextual Attachment Theory
Contextual Information and Purpose The study's three main purposes were to determine if the
so–called activation relationship is predominantly influenced by a father figure promoting risk taking
behavior in a child; to ascertain whether there was a connection between the activation relationship
and fearful or disoriented attachment; and to determine whether there was a difference between
sexes in the activation relationship between fathers and their toddlers. The activation relationship is
based on activation theory, or the idea that a child's confidence is a result of the promotion by
parents of risk–taking behavior during exploration. Most literature in the area of parent–child
attachment focuses on the mother as the primary attachment figure....show more content...
Because the participants in this study were found using newspaper advertisements and recruiting at
child centers, it is likely that the study is not representative of the whole population of fathers, but of
a subset that are relatively well–off and believe they are heavily engaged with their children. In
addition, essential aspects of this study, such as parenting style and personality of the child, were
obtained using self–report measures. People subjected to self–report measures have a tendency to
provide inaccurate information because they are unable to provide the correct information or they
wish to give the researcher a more desirable answer. Because of the presence of self–report measures
in this study, there is a chance that inaccurate information has affected the study results, especially
because of the tendency of the fathers in the study to think of themselves as engaged with their
children. Finally, the both the Risky Situation and the Strange Situation procedures used in this
study are observational methods of research. While it is stated in the research that a small team of
students observed the experiment, there is still a possibility that observer bias, or the inclination of
researchers to observe events that they anticipate seeing, contributed to the

Contextual Analysis: A New Work Ethic
As I read the contextual analysis "A New Work Ethic," I started to saw solid likenesses of my own
encounters and the workplace investigated by the human asset administrator James Sheehy. What he
had revealed happened to be exceptionally stunning. He depicted this new era of specialists as having
a terrifying new hard working attitude without any respects to predominance. Sheehy states they
show hatred for clients, detachment to quality and administration, impossible assumptions about the
universe of work, and have an escape with–what–you–can demeanor. His examination on the matter
helps me to remember a gathering of associates at a past workplace I could call my own. This
certain gathering of associates had a hard working attitude

Contextual Factors: Community Analysis
Contextual Factors:
I'm helping out as an intern a small town school, in the Bitterroot Valley, history club. This
community is small enough that almost everybody knows everyone and the school is the center of
most community events, other than 4–H events of course. With in this community there is an
elementary school, middle school, and high school all with in walking distance of each other done
that there would be more crossovers between the age groups. The students I will be working with
in History Club are high school age students who must have completed Global Studies freshman
year with a grade of a B or higher, making most of them between the ages of 16 and 19.
The activity plan that I've created will be in the content area of Social Studies, in specific English
history. This activity will be having the students looking into the five important couples involved in
the War of the Roses and or who lived during the reign of the Tudor family. In order to complete the
activity I have planned we will need the mobile Mac–book lab, five flip video cameras, and a
Smart–board....show more content...
Through my research I found that crafted digital stories would include the following seven elements:
."Point of View Intentionally told from the point of view of its creator
.Dramatic Question An attention–getter that works to pique viewers' interest
.Emotional Content A storyline that draws the viewer in and stirs an emotional connection
.Economy Carefully crafting a script that relays the intended message while adhering to a time limit
of two to three minutes for the entire story
.Pacing Maintaining a rhythm that keeps the audience interested
.The Gift of Voice Using your voice to tell your story" (Crystal

Contextual Education Case Study
As of date, the peacebuilding initiative has not taken place at my Contextual Education II site;
however, it is my expectation that if Lawrenceville First United Methodist Church (FUMCLV) are
courageous enough to begin this channel of communication, they will continue this effort to sustain
real peace and racial reconciliation with their neighbors. To take on this challenge will not be easy.
Nevertheless, I remain hopeful that if there is a solution to racial reconciliation, it will occur one
conversation at a time. Also, I believe that true racial reconciliation can only occur when members of
FUMCLV and the community come to the conversation freely and with a willingness to change. This
kind of willingness to change must include a willingness to liberate and to repent.
The church is the most appropriate place for ongoing conversations on issues of race reconciliation.
The context of church invites the presence of God, allowing authentic believers practice their faith in
everyday life. I am prayerful that this plan of action will impact the Lawrenceville community where
reconciliation actually encompasses all dimensions of peacebuilding, when it is expanded across
racial boundaries to cultivate deep personal relationships....show more content...
FUMCLV openness and commitment to end racial division will help the church to identify and
support the key racial justice issues particularly troubled in the community in recent years. They may
simultaneously feel an urgency to respond and be somewhat overwhelmed. Yet, they must be
proactive in seeking to create an encounter where diverse people can focus on their relationship and
share their perceptions, feelings, and experiences with one another, with the goal of creating new
perceptions and a new shared

Contextual Factors
Community, District, and School Factors Rio Grande City has 11.35 square miles of land.
According the census it has a total population of 14,033. The median income is $29,974 with 5.6%
unemployment rate. The immediate surrounding area of the school consists of a small subdivision
mostly filled with one story houses. There are several small restaurants around that area that are
well known. The RGCCISD has a mission to promote that no bullying shall be tolerated. They will
strive for a safe and civil environment that is necessary for students to learn and achieve high
academic standards. The mission of RGCCISD is to promote high standards of academic
achievement, promote positive personal well being, and ensure student social success by
implementing an Anti–Bullying Policy that encompasses the areas of academic, career, social and
personal development for all students. It consists of 18 schools counting the Early College High
School, Rio Grande City High School Grulla High School, and Rio Grande City CISD SEAS/DAEP
Center. Depending on their location, parents are able to send their children to the school that is
closest to their home. RGCCISD has a website where it holds information and links for the
community to gather from....show more content...
Their vision statement is to prepare all students to meet the academic, creative, and social challenges
and responsibilities of our society. Their mission statement is to provide the students with learning
environments that are safe and conducive to learning, and to embrace school and community
partnership. The core values and beliefs of the school is that every individual is entitled to an
emotionally and physically safe and respectful learning environment. Schools that stimulate progress
will produce students who will become great critical thinkers and problem

Contextual Inquiry
Contextual inquiry is developed by Beyer and Holtzblatt (1988). The data is collected through
contextual inquiry. Contextual inquiry is a qualitative study from various field such as psychology,
anthropology and sociology (Ghasemifard, Shamsi, Kenari, & Ahmadi, 2015). Therefore contextual
inquiry method is carried out to assist the cognitive performance among users. The first step taken is
to observe users based on the usability testing methods in their cognitive performance while using the
app. Then questions are asked based on the existing problem discovered and the process taken by
users in completing their task through the app. There are four evaluators that participated in this
study to observe the usability of the application created and at the same time to jot down different
performances that may occur simultaneously in terms of their cognitive actions. According to the
International Organisation for Standardization (1998), the usability testing mode is used to measure
the effectiveness, efficiency, responses (Bastien, 2010) and satisfaction among the users. Usability
testing is carried out to measure the performance of user while using the app. The app is the
prototype that will be tested. The measurement of the performance includes...show more content...
Contextual inquiry focuses on structured interviews although unstructured interviews were also
carried out in the beginning of the interview session. There are three principles of contextual
inquiry investigated such as the understanding of users in their task performance, users are also a
part of the research design process and the usability design process (Ghasemifard, Shamsi, Kenari
& Ahmadi, 2015). Meanwhile, the behaviors of the users are observed and recorded in order to
identify design flaws that causes user errors or difficulties (Bastien, 2010) in the application

Contextual Theory Application Essay
Today's society contributes to one's successes and failures as a result of the individual's
characteristics and ignorance of his or her surroundings. However, a novel, and overlooked
sociological concept, contextual explanation, provides a solution for this oversight. More
specifically, contextual explanation states members of society should examine beyond an
individual's traits like motivation and determination, and rather, into one's environment and how it
environment has attributed to their success or failure. For instance, investigating an individual's
family income, secondary education institutions attended, emotional support, and resources
provided in their native towns. One of my great inspirations, passions, and preoccupations is
surgery. In particular, the art of surgery as my ultimate career goal is to become the "World's
Greatest Surgeon" with respects to Dr. DeBakey and Dr. Cushing, two of my greatest idols.
Although, no one in my family or even extended family is a physician, I fell in love with the field of
medicine when I began...show more content...
I am located about 2 hours from Boston, Massachusetts, and 30 minutes from Providence, Rhode
Island. As a result, I am able to take full advantage of Harvard Medical School and Brown Medical
School. For instance, I was a lab member at the Cardiothoracic Transplant laboratory at
Massachusetts General Hospital one of the best hospitals in the world. Due to the resources, Mass
General offered, I could do the work to be awarded the American Society of Transplantation
Pre–Doctoral Scholarship. Furthermore, I have attended numerous conferences at Harvard Medical
School, the most exciting the Harvard Medical Student Boot camp where I learned suturing.
Therefore, living close to Providence and Boston has provided me with many opportunities that I
need to be successful in my road to becoming a

The Models Of Contextual Theology Essay
Write a book review of Stephen B. Bevans' Models of Contextual Theology. Describe and evaluate
the theological assumptions behind each of the 'models' of contextual theology.
Models of Contextual Theology is a concise theological book exploring the interaction between
the good news of the gospel message and the culture and context within which we live. Bevans is
a Roman Catholic priest and academic, who spent several of his early years working in the
Philippines, learning practically what it means to minister in a context different from his own; he
draws on some of these experiences in his book. The book is aimed particularly at theologians and
academics who would like an intellectual basis for understanding the why and how of their own
practices of ministry. It also explores a necessity to break away from 'classical theology' which has
grown up from mostly male–dominated and western–dominated contexts. Bevans provides six
working 'models' of how an understanding of context might apply to and enhance the outworking of
faith and global evangelisation today.
We all experience life within a context (to a greater or lesser extent of self–awareness) and it is
helpful to have a structure to explore how our context affects the meanings we attribute to our faith,
and how we might align our thinking and deliberations with others. Bevans explains this clearly:
'As our cultural and historical context plays a part in the construction of the reality in which we live,
so our context

Understanding the contextual factors at your school and within your classroom can include a
variety of things such as culture, economics, demographics and even academic history. As teachers
you need to remain flexible and understand the different collective and individual learning needs of
all your students. The issues you may face as a teacher may connect to the local community and
may need to be taken into account when instructing students in your classroom. It is important as a
teacher to be able to not only understand when you make instructional decisions you can be
influenced by outside factors but also understand how the contextual analysis will affect these
issues at hand. The extensive list of school characteristics above helps shed some light on how the
information I collected will realistically help plan units and lessons taught in the school. At PS 66 I
think they take the old saying "a good teacher can teacher anywhere" come true. There is a not
argument that there is a direct relation between the condition and utility of a school facility and the
learning, but it's up to the teachers to minimize the negative effect it can have on students. Everyone
knows the classroom is the most important area within a school and it is not only where students
spend most of their time but it should be an environment conducive to learning regardless of
location and physical condition of the school. In order to succeed at teaching at this school you must
develop daily schedules,

Contextual Clues
Context Clues are hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. The clue
may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it may be in a preceding or
subsequent sentence. Because most of your vocabulary is gained through reading, it is important
that you be able to recognize and take advantage of context clues.Types of context clues. There are at
least four kinds of context clues that are quite common. | Synonym | A synonym, orword with the
same meaning, is used in the sentence. My opponent's argument is fallacious, misleading – plain
wrong. | | Antonym| A word or group of words that has the opposite meaning reveals the meaning of
an unknown term. Although some men are loquacious,...show more content...
On the other hand, Billy was eager for the chance to be captain. He thought that being captain of the
team would make him very popular in school.
4. Description context clue
The author includes one or more descriptions to help the reader understand the meaning of a word.
In the following example, descriptions of President Kennedy as having charm, enthusiasm, and a
magnetic personality help the reader understand the meaning of "charismatic."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, our 35th president, improved human rights and equal rights for all people.
He was a very charismatic president. People were attracted to his charm and enthusiasm. His
personality was described as magnetic.
5. Summary context clue
The author makes a number of statements that help the reader understand the meaning of a word. In
the following example, statements about being rude, showing no respect, having poor manners, and
being impolite help the reader understand the meaning of "impertinent."
Andrea was a very impertinent young lady. She was so rude that she talked while her teacher was
explaining a lesson. She showed no respect for other students. Her manners were very poor. Even her
parents thought that Andrea was impolite.
She was exultant
6. Visual context clue
The author includes a picture, drawing, chart, graph, or other type of visual to help the reader
understand the meaning of a word. In the following example, the picture and its

External Contextual Factors
Introduction:
A person can have multiple identities for when they are in different social situations (Stets &
Burke, 2000; Akkerman et al., 2011). This is true for teachers as they often reconstruct their
identities to fit the workplace (Woods & Jeffery, 2002; Akkerman et al., 2011). The factors which
influence a teacher's identity has been extensively discussed by academics, as the dynamic is
important to understand for developing effective professional learning programs, and what causes
career changes into and out of teaching careers (). These influences this paper is discussing includes
external pressures set from governments and schools, internal values discussed as people's emotions
and beliefs, and contextual factors such as the teaching...show more content...
This paper separates some of these influences into 3 interrelated groups including external, internal
and contextual factors. External factors discussed the pressures from policies placed by governments
and schools and their negative and positive interactions with a teacher's morals. Internal aspects
looked at a teacher's emotions and beliefs and how they're moulded by their personal life and
learning experiences. And lastly, contextual portrayed how the culture and leaderships groups within
a school setting can impact a teacher's growing identity. The result is that the process and
understanding of what makes up a teacher are tremendously complex, due to every teacher coming
from diverse backgrounds and having different values towards teaching. Therefore, those who create
the regulations for teachers, design pre–service university training and the school's leadership teams
who interact with teachers daily. Should try to understand these influences and alter their approach
accordingly to ensure teachers are given the required support and possibility to teach to the best of
their ability without being forced into being someone they are

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