While at ACU they have conducted a series of research seminars in which they examined a range of issues that affect the ways researchers gather information from children. In addition to their presentations they spent time with ACU staff and interested visitors looking into issues and implications that had a bearing on their research, study and professional work. David S. Steward is Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at Pacific School of Religion and The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Traditional professional schooling in the US is shaped by guilds and the mastery of prescribed knowledge. The scope of thinking required to do this is usually interdisciplinary.
Human imagination is required to take many personal and social problems to resolution.
Professional practice requires both a grounded, disciplined mind, and the willingness to engage a world which does not lend itself to closure. Margaret S. Steward is Emeritus Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and a past Associate Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis. She holds a diplomate in clinical psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. As an academic administrator, she focused on recruitment, hiring, and career development of junior faculty. She has served as a consultant and conducted workshops on children's cognitive, linguistic and emotional development in the United States and Australia for staff from health, mental health, social welfare, and law enforcement agencies and from the judiciary.