Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:
Perspective I: Formal education --
Training institutions and the oral preference learner --
How should a theological institution prepare students/leaders who will go out into the field to train local people (storytellers) to tell Bible stories effectively? / Damon So --
Africa Theological Seminary / Phil Walker --
Oral Bible story telling training at New India Bible Seminary, Kerala India / Mary Verghese --
A response to the articles in Perspective I / Emmanuel Chemengich --
Perspective II: Non-formal training --
training organizations and the oral preference learner --
Multiplying disciples in an oral context / Jackson Atkins --
Orality applied in a classroom setting with Amazon Region Indian students / David Irving --
A response to the articles in Perspective II / Miriam Adeney --
Perspective III: Andragogy and approaches --
adult learning and oral preference learners --
Helping adults learn : lessons from andragogy and the challenge of context / LaNette W. Thompson --
Important lessons from indigenous movements and locally-initiated churches in the global south / James R. Krabill --
Orality observations among Francophone West African adults : storying to orality / Jeff Singerman --
A response to the articles in Perspective III / Steve Evans --
Perspective IV: Affirming and empowering --
the oral preference learner and the oral leader --
Teaching oral learners in institutional settings / W. Jay Moon --
Contextualizing theological education in Africa : a case of ECWA Theological Seminary, Jos, Nigeria (JETS) / Bauta D. Motty --
Theological education an incarnational missiology : empowering and affirming oral learners in oral culture pastor training / Mark M. Overstreet --
Responding to the articles in Perspective IV / M. David Sills.