Innovating Christian Education Research

1. Front Matter

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2. Innovating Christian Education Research: Multidisciplinary Perspectives—An Introductory Overview

   • Johannes M. Luetz, Beth Green

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3. Conceptual: Research that Develops Theological, Philosophical and Theoretical Discussion of Christian Education

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Present Tense. Christian Education in Secular Time

      • Beth Green

      Pages 19-29

   3. Thinking as Christian Virtue: Reason and Persuasion for a Fractious Age

      • Mark Stephens

      Pages 31-44

   4. Home-Coming: Restoring a Theology of Place Within Christian Education

      • Darren Iselin

      Pages 45-58

   5. Christian Higher Education: Capturing a Personal Passionate Profession

      • Beverley Norsworthy

      Pages 59-71

   6. Towards a Conceptual Model for Biblical Transformative Online Learning

      • Elizabeth Beech

      Pages 73-86

   7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christo-ecclesial Unity in Christian Higher Education

      • D. J. Konz

      Pages 87-102

   8. In Search of a Redeemed and Redeeming Epistemology for Cross-Cultural Educational Research: A Biblical Narrative Perspective on Straussian Grounded Theory

      • Joseph R. Leopard

      Pages 103-123

   9. Developing a Research and Scholarship Framework: An Australian Christian Higher Education Case Study

      • Denise A. Austin, David Perry

      Pages 125-142

   10. Christian Higher Education: A Frog in the Kettle or a Light on the Hill?

       • Craig B. Murison

       Pages 143-155

   11. Clarifying Australian Christian School Purposes in the Neoliberal Marketplace

       • Jacqueline Greentree

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   12. Do We Live in a Pluralist Society Any More? Christian Education as a Case Study

       • James Dalziel

       Pages 173-190

   13. A Reason for Revelation: The Place of Sacred Texts in Secular Middle-School Science Curricula

       • David M. Benson

       Pages 191-217

4. Empirical: Research that Examines Data to Test Theory, Answer Big Questions and Develop our Understanding of Christian Education

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Distinctively Christian Higher Education as the Wholistic Formation of Students

      • Sunaina Gowan, Maureen Miner

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   3. Art Therapy and Prison Chaplaincy: A Review of Contemporary Practices Considering New Testament Teachings

      • Sarah Tucker, Johannes M. Luetz

      Pages 239-269

   4. Cupbearers to the King: Humility, Hope and Hospitality for Formational Practice

      • Andrew Butcher, Beverley Norsworthy

      Pages 271-286

   5. The Imaginarium of Narrative in Christian Curriculum Design: A Case Study from Saint Kentigern College, Auckland

      • Hugh P. Kemp

      Pages 287-301

This book reformulates Christian education as an interdisciplinary and interdenominational vocation for professionals and practitioners. It speaks directly to a range of contemporary contexts with the aim of encouraging conceptual, empirical and practice-informed innovation to build the field of Christian education research. The book invites readers to probe questions concerning epistemologies, ethics, pedagogies and curricula, using multidisciplinary research approaches. By helping thinkers to believe and believers to think, the book seeks to stimulate constructive dialogue about what it means to innovate Christian education research today.
Chapters are organised into three main sections. Following an introduction to the volume's guiding framework and intended contribution (Chapter 1), Part 1 features conceptual perspectives and comprises research that develops theological, philosophical and theoretical discussion of Christian education (Chapters 2-13). Part 2 encompasses empirical research that examines data to test theory, answer big questions and develop our understanding of Christian education (Chapters 14-18). Finally, Part 3 reflects on contemporary practice contexts and showcases examples of emerging research agendas in Christian education (Chapters 19-24).

• Concepts, Practices and Prospects in Christian Education
• Theory and Practice in Christian Education
• Research Briefs in Christian Education
• Reason and Relevance in Christian Education
• Contemporary Christian Education Approaches
• Future Perspectives in Christian Education Research
• Research and Scholarship in Christian Education
• Conceptual Approaches in Christian Education
• Global and Local Perspectives in Christian Education
• Perspectives in Christian Education
• Principles in Christian Education
• Persuasions in Christian Education
• Theology in Christian Education
• Curriculum in Christian Education
• Pedagogy in Christian Education

• Christian Heritage College (CHC), Brisbane, Australia

  Johannes M. Luetz

• School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

  Johannes M. Luetz

• School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Maroochydore, Australia

  Johannes M. Luetz

• Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, Canada

  Beth Green

Dr. Johannes M. Luetz (BA/USA, MBA/Germany, PhD/Australia) is Research Chair at Christian Heritage College (CHC) in Brisbane, Australia. He has consulted extensively for World Vision International on research projects raising awareness of the growing effects of demographic, environmental and climate change on vulnerable communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He was raised in Sierra Leone and Switzerland, cares deeply about poverty reduction, holistic education, justice and equity, and has researched and published conceptually and empirically in these areas. He is a big picture thinker and has interdisciplinary research interests at the science-policy interface. His research has attracted grants, prizes, scholarships, awards and distinctions, including best thesis prize (2006), UNSW UIP Award (2009), UNSW ASPIRE Award (2012) and best paper awards (2017, 2018). Dr. Luetz is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Adjunct Academic at theUniversity of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney and sits on the Editorial Board of Springer Nature journal Discover Sustainability.
Dr. Beth Green is Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Tyndale University, Toronto. Dr. Green is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a Senior Fellow at the faith-based think tank Cardus. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is also a graduate of Cambridge and London Universities. Dr. Green has an international reputation for her expertise in religious school ethos; leadership and management; teaching and learning and social theory in education. She regularly publishes her empirical research in international journals, including the British Journal of Sociology and Education and the Cambridge Journal of Education. Her consultancy regularly takes her to Europe and Australia where she advises on effective approaches to measurement, professional development, and pedagogy in the religious school sector.

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