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Publication A Decade of Encounter Biblical Studies(Avondale Academic Press, 2020-07-01) Christian, Beverly J.; Kilgour, Peter W.; Fitzsimmons, Phil; Hill, BarryStarting with a brief history of the development
of the Encounter Bible curriculum and summary
of the evaluative research methodology,
this paper draws on teacher, student and
administrator interview data in its account
of teachers’ attempts to teach Encounter
Bible. The writers refer to selected points
of interest from their evaluation as they
discuss teacher perceptions of the Encounter
resource, assessment practice, the theory
behind planning, the teaching and learning
process, spirituality in schools and classrooms,
and professional development. They also
review student perceptions of teaching, and
administrator involvement in supporting
teachers. In surveying teacher achievements
and challenges, the paper addresses a limited
number of key issues that could ultimately be
of critical reflective importance for Christian
schools.
Publication Developing a Faith-Based Education: A Teacher’s Manual(Avondale Academic Press, 2010-01-01) Hill, BarryPublication Encyclopedia of Christian Education(Avondale Academic Press, 2015-11-01) Hill, BarryItem Spiritual Awareness within a Religious Frame: A 'Responsive Evaluation' of One School's approach to Chaplaincy(2013-01-01) Hill, Barry; Lanphar, Edie; Fitzsimmons, PhilThis chapter details the findings of a ‘responsive evaluation’ of one Christian school’s implementation of a specialised chaplaincy program that sought to integrate the concept of ‘Christian values’ within its school life. While the investigation revealed that program as a whole was not successful, it did uncover that it could be much more efficacious if students and staff had a much greater sense of ‘buying into the program’. This notion of ‘buy in’ had several facets and was grounded in the need for both groups to become engaged in a ‘spiritual’ experience that would enhance their religious experience. These two facets are not always wedded in the same experience, especially in a school setting2 and as was the case in this instance. While religion is typically seen as an institutional experience3 and the spiritual more aligned as an individual experience4 the findings of this project reveal that the key conditions for a melding of the two lie in the development of time and opportunity for incorporating an evolving cycle of ‘deep reflection, personal reaction and corporate exploration of all responses.’ Thus, in many ways the religious school experience could move from an institutionalised transmission of values to a multi-dimensional melding of diversity and inter-subjectivity. In regards to this site and context, spirituality and chaplaincy could perhaps then no longer be intellectualised, or attempted to be developed through a transmission model or solely contained within religion.
Publication Teaching Faith in the Twenty First Century: Pointers for Christian Schools(Avondale Academic Press, 2014-01-01) Hill, BarryItem What Five Students of the Encounter Adventist Bible Curriculum Taught us about their Spirituality(2021-01-01) Fitzsimmons, Phil; Hill, BarryThe concept of spirituality is a vital element of Adventist education. Developers of the Encounter Bible curriculum have shown its centrality by placing an “authentic incarnational spirituality” in its curriculum, harnessed “to a concept where God is abiding and enabling of meaning, identity, purpose and character in the individual’s life.” The following case study explores how student spirituality has manifested itself in one school in response to the intentions of curriculum developers and Bible teachers