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The Lift Project: Motion Creates Emotion
No full textThe Lift Project is an evidence-based mental health and wellbeing program that draws together the findings of over 400 studies from the disciplines of Neuroscience, Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Psychology. The program is endorsed by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and the Global Positive Health Institute. Approximately 25,000 world-wide have engaged with the program
7 Dimensions of Wellness: Spiritually Empowered
No full textThe 7 Dimensions of Wellness is a 9-part short documentary series that explores pathways for enhancing our overall health and wellbeing. Join Darren Morton as he speaks to leading experts, conducts fun experiments and presents fascinating insights into how we can live our best life
An Evaluation of Teacher Stressors in an era of COVID-19: An Initial Analysis
No full textSchool lockdowns prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic has required teachers to work in a climate of rapid and significant adaptation. In this paper, which is part of a larger study, we provide a summary of the effects the COVID-19 school lockdowns in 2020 had on teacher stress. The paper outlines firstly the specific teacher stressors that existed before 2020 as well as the additional stressors that became apparent during and since the COVID-19 pandemic, as identified in scholarly literature. Secondly, the paper provides a brief overview of the responses from teachers in the 48 schools within Adventist Schools Australia (ASA) to an online survey designed to explore their workplace stressors surrounding the school lockdowns in 2020. Overall, there was a general increase in workplace stress during the COVID-19 school lockdowns, but it was not the degree that has been reported in previous literature
An Evaluation of Teacher Stressors in an era of COVID-19: An Initial Analysis
No full textSchool lockdowns prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic has required teachers to work in a climate of rapid and significant adaptation. In this paper, which is part of a larger study, we provide a summary of the effects the COVID-19 school lockdowns in 2020 had on teacher stress. The paper outlines firstly the specific teacher stressors that existed before 2020 as well as the additional stressors that became apparent during and since the COVID-19 pandemic, as identified in scholarly literature. Secondly, the paper provides a brief overview of the responses from teachers in the 48 schools within Adventist Schools Australia (ASA) to an online survey designed to explore their workplace stressors surrounding the school lockdowns in 2020. Overall, there was a general increase in workplace stress during the COVID-19 school lockdowns, but it was not the degree that has been reported in previous literature
Student Thinking Profiles Within a Small Group Addressing Problems in Thermodynamics as part of a Physical Chemistry Unit: Reflections for Students and Instructors
No full textThis paper reports on how a group of students think when trying to solve a set of thermodynamic revision exercises in the context of collaborative small group conversation at the undergraduate level. The revision exercises involved exploring the relationship between enthalpy and temperature, entropy and temperature, and entropy of a gas under compression. Four students enrolled in a science or science teaching degree comprised the group. Two workshops, conducted about one month apart, were convened and student and instructor diaries were used to explore the thinking profiles illuminated in the diaries. The thinking profiles fitted into the categories: routine-level, object-level, process-level and meta-level. A surprisingly large amount of meta-level thinking was exhibited by the students. It was found advantageous to add adjectival qualifiers to object-level and process-level profiles to more fully interpret what the students had to say. The qualifiers were: incoherent, intuitive, algorithmic, and integrative. The workshops proved beneficial not only to the students but also to the instructor. The use of equations like mixes the result of a definite integral symbolic format (left-hand side) with the indefinite integral symbolic format (right-hand side), and leads to students finding it difficult to distinguish between H, dH, and ΔH for enthalpy and S, dS, and ΔS for entropy. Students communicated their feelings freely and there was a general consensus within the group that the workshops were really beneficial
Two Surprising Things about Tithing
Get PDFA study involving the analysis of tithe receipts and collection of survey data from Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States revealed the somewhat surprising result that in some countries there is a small negative correlation between the motive of tithing so as to receive a blessing from God and actual tithing practice. In other words, the more an individual agreed with statement such as, “I contribute tithe because God promises prosperity to those who tithe,” thereby expressing a desire to tithe because they would receive a blessing from God, the less likely they were to do so. On the other hand, there was a strong positive correlation between a desire to tithe because of gratitude for what God had done for them and an individual actually tithing. Survey data also revealed that those who do tithe report that, “God has blessed me because I tithe.” The article also contains stories of where God has miraculously preserved tithers from such disasters as a locust plague, but also one story where a faithful tither was not protected from hail when their non-tithing neighbours were. After a brief theological reflection on these stories, the article concludes that gratitude for God’s goodness is a better motivator to encourage tithing than the promise of a blessing to those who do tithe
Bai, Jinjian and Zeng Xiangfu
No full textThe story of two Chinese colporteurs, Beh Chin-chien (白金鑒, Bai Jinjian) and Djeng Hsiang-pu (曾湘甫 Zeng Xiangfu), is one of Christian courage pitted against the inclement weather of western China and the difficulties of taking the gospel to Moslem Uyghers in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the largest province of China on its northwest border. It is also the story of their ultimate sacrifice for their belief in the gospel commission of Christ.https://research.avondale.edu.au/esda/1551/thumbnail.jp
Central China Mission (1909-1917)
No full textBetween the years 1903 and 1908 Seventh-day Adventist missionaries were active in Central China. Medical work was used to pioneer mission efforts in the province of Honan (now Henan) and was conducted by Drs. Arthur and Bertha Selmon and Drs. Harry and Maud Miller. In 1905 the first Sabbath School was organized, with a membership of only ten individuals. In 1906 Francis Arthur Allum and Percival Laird, followed by Roy Cottrell, evangelized further south in the province of Hunan. At the same time the team in Henan was augmented with Eric Pilquist and John Westrup.https://research.avondale.edu.au/esda/1560/thumbnail.jp
Grundset, Ole J. (1886-1957) and Anna Elvira (Sorensen) (1888–1950)
No full textOle J. and Anna E. Grundset were among the earliest Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to evangelize Manchuria.https://research.avondale.edu.au/esda/1572/thumbnail.jp