ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how the residential training, through both the timetable, and the formal and informal 'gaze' of staff and other students, acts to inscribe and regulate the 'docile body' of the trainees in preparation for the critical transition to an ordained status. Training in a residential setting over a two to three year period is a compulsory, if controversial, aspect of the professional preparatory of those offering themselves for ministry in the Anglican priesthood in England and Wales. This mode of preparation is seen as being essential to an inculcation of the 'attitudes and habits' required of the occupational role and status for both the trainee and, where relevant, her/his partner and family. The highly visible nature of life in the residential training also meant that students could rely on each other to informally monitor and regulate behaviour, especially within their immediate groups of friends.
