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In Green Pastures The Impact of One School\u27s Gardening Program on Children\u27s Perceptions of God and Jesus
No full textThis chapter explores the metaphor of Christian educators as under-shepherds who both protect and nurture their students. Using current research, it identifies how learning in a garden setting nurtures students’ physical, intellectual, and social-emotional wellbeing.
Although spiritual benefits of outdoor learning are alluded to in the literature, there is limited empirical evidence to support a link between outdoor learning environments and spiritual questing. Based on responses gathered from students in a Christian primary school, this chapter presents a case study of how one school garden program helped shape children’s perceptions of God and Jesus as Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer
Classroom Confirmation Panels: Facilitating Feedback in Communities of Practice in Classroom Learning Groups
No full textThis article explores innovative peer-assessment strategies to create and support lifelong learners. It proposes that the confirmation panel—a formal progression requirement of a postgraduate degree—can effectively facilitate feedback, function as an assessment tool, and meaningfully induct both secondary and undergraduate tertiary students into a community of practice. The confirmation panel offers immediacy and richness of feedback, promotion of accountability, empathy, confidence, content knowledge, and—importantly—the transfer of tacit knowledge specific to a community of practice. Other positive results include: building and (re)structuring metacognitive frameworks, facilitation of self-reflection, and the forming of a creative, collegial environment where standards are clarified and learning is scaffolded
Berean Library
No full textThe Berean Library was a set of core denominational books issued as inexpensive paperbacks for use in reading programs intended to enhance members’ understanding of and involvement in the mission of the church
Coulston, Elmer Floyd, (1906–1934) and Leatha Wenke Coulston-Brooks (1905–1996)
No full textElmer and Leatha Coulston were medical missionaries in northern China in the early 1930s. Their united pioneering efforts were cut short when Elmer died of diphtheria in 1934
Dexter, Herbert Hildreth (1871–1970)
No full textHerbert Dexter and his wife, Millie, were missionaries to Tahiti, France and Switzerland
Laweloa, Jope (1896–1972)
No full textJope Laweloa was a Fijian missionary to Vanuatu and pastor in Fiji
Gooding (Carr; later Golding), Evelyn (1877–1960)
No full textEvelyn Gooding was a pioneer teacher to Rarotonga and the first Avondale College graduate to Pacific Islands mission work
Harding, Francis June Keller (1906–1992)
No full textFrances Keller Harding, M.D., was a pioneer in the field of women’s health both in Australia and the United States
Miller, Graham Roy Kofod (1926–1976)
No full textGraham Roy Kofod Miller was a missionary to Kiribati and Youth director in local conferences and Australasian Division
Rodionov, Pavel Vasilevich (1903–1964)
No full textPavel Rodionov was a Russian by birth and a mission pioneer in Manchuria and Mongolia. In 1949 he transferred to Australia as the first Seventh-day Adventist minister to nurture any of the many groups who had migrated from Europe to Australia after the Second World War. He established the Russian church in Sydney before his premature passing