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How first-year uni students could help solve the teacher shortage crisis
A new proposal has arisen to solve the teacher shortage crisis – embedding trainee teachers in classrooms six months into their training. The first image that came to many on hearing this suggestion was shivering, utterly unprepared 19-year-olds crying h…
Dr David Hastie

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How first-year uni students could help solve the teacher shortage crisis
Education

How first-year uni students could help solve the teacher shortage crisis

A new proposal has arisen to solve the teacher shortage crisis – embedding trainee teachers in classrooms six months into their training. The first image that came to many on hearing this suggestion was shivering, utterly unprepared 19-year-olds crying h…
Education

Theology is a successful, highly industry engaged field of study

Here is a riddle guaranteed to baffle great minds in our universities, panels of experts advising the government on industry-university engagement, and challenge even the most knowledgeable of our higher education pundits.Clue one: I am perhaps the most…
Do I really care?

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Do I really care?

I do not often rail at the TV – although in the interests of transparency, my wife might suggest there was a tad more during lockdown… But even out of that context, I have been known to argue with what I am hearing in front of me.The most common incide…
Teaching history and civics in Australian schools: What has the National Curriculum Review rectified, and what has it neglected?

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Teaching history and civics in Australian schools: What has the National Curriculum Review rectifie…

This article first appeared on ABC on May 24 2021 https://ab.co/3c0dMhvChildren’s classrooms might seem like innocent enough places, but make no mistake: when it comes to cultural expectations, schools are bombs just waiting to go off. And I don’t mean t…
We have some yawning gaps in balancing the history we teach

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We have some yawning gaps in balancing the history we teach

The following article first appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald on Nov 8 2021 https://bit.ly/2YwfwvQThere has been much throwing about of brains in the review of the Australian national history curriculum. The federal Minister of Education, Alan Tudge,…

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Six Classroom Tips for Integrating Christian Faith with other Subjects

Christian schools are the way most Australians will engage with the gospel in the coming decades, closely followed by Christian social services, with Christian congregations well behind.  So the quality of Christian witness in word and deed in these sett…

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Book Reviews as a Spiritual Discipline

Writing book reviews is neither particularly fashionable in academia nor rewarded by the current bureaucratic arbiters of research performance.  Yet I believe it is still worthwhile. These days we are rewarded much more for speaking and writing than for…

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Less About Christianity: What's Proposed for the National Curriculum

The following article is an interview between Eternity News and Dr David Hastie posted on 7 May 2021.Last week, the Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority (ACARA) released their proposed changes to the National Curriculum. There was an immediate o…

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Divine Calling as Motivation to Study

Have you ever wondered what motivates people to study? Universities, policy makers and educators regard this as an important question. The answer helps drives policy and shapes the regulation that governs one of Australia’s biggest sectors – Higher Educa…

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Alan Tudge's Healthy Ambition

Since the creation of the Australian federal education portfolio in 1963, there have been 26 ministers: placeholders, buffoons, political animals and true believers. The average tenure has been around two years. Few have arrived in the role with sign…

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Biblical Theory and Research Paradigms

Have you ever been criticised for offering an opinion based on Biblical understanding? Did you ever have a university or college lecturer who explicitly taught you through their ideological lens, to the point of ridiculing anyone who attempted to ask a q…

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Independent higher education should not be excluded from research funding

Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Greg Craven recently described the research funding debates in an article in the Australian (“break in supply chain means elite unis struggle to survive”, September 5) as a “hunger games”. His concern is tha…

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Independent Higher Education in the time of COVID

It has been a bizarre year in higher education, with most of the attention focused on our public universities and their woes in the absence of international student income. Independent higher education though is about 10% of the system and growing, so it…

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What would a Gonski for Higher Education look like?

While controversy has surrounded the implementation of the Gonski recommendations for school education, there is general agreement on the soundness of the principle articulated in the original Gonski report of “sector-blind needs-based” funding. In Aust…

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The Paradox of Ethnocentric Ethnorelativism: An Examination of a Christian Worldview

In the present context of rapid globalisation, one of the unique challenges with which Christian educators have to grapple is equipping students to engage with multiple worldviews in their community and workplaces, without compromising their own (Chri…

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The Clinical Teaching Model (CTM): Explored

This article builds on my post ‘The Clinical Teaching Model (CTM)’ (Crucis, November 6, 2015). The first article tried to position the CTM within the broad concept of how we learn best for practical application from the commencement of a career in te…

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Transformational Education – or Not?

Christian schools play a significant role in Australian society. My interest is in the effectiveness of Christian schooling, a topic to which I have devoted my doctoral studies. Specifically I want to appraise whether member schools of Christian Schoo…

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The Clinical Teaching Model (CTM)

What if we assumed that learning is as much a part of our human nature as eating or sleeping, that it is both life-sustaining and inevitable, and that – given a chance – we are quite good at it? And what if, in addition, we assumed that learning is, …
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