The Dynamic of "Ordered Liberty:" Forming United Church Worship Leaders in the Atlantic School of Theology Chapel
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the formation of United Church of Canada (UCC) worship leaders in the Atlantic School of Theology (AST) chapel. As the United Church Formation Director at AST, the researcher is responsible for the Denominational Formation program (which includes opportunities for student-planned and -led worship) for UCC Master of Divinity students preparing for ordained ministry. The thesis begins with an investigation of the informal pedagogical space that is the theological school chapel. It then explores the character of United Church worship, introducing the UCC’s liturgical principle of “ordered liberty.” Next, the nature of formation for ministry is considered. The qualitative research base of the thesis is a case study with three components: a questionnaire, interviews, and a focus group. Through these methods of data collection, recent alumni share stories of significant theological school worship experiences; the impact of their chapel worship experiences on their current worship leadership; the range of factors that influenced their learning; and recommendations for future AST students. Following analysis of the data collected in these ways, a “map” of the formation process is proposed as a learning tool. The multilayered tensions felt in planning and leading worship are explored. To conclude, the metaphor of chapel as playground is considered. The results of this study suggest improvements for the content and process of forming United Church students for worship leadership in a theological school chapel.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".