This collection showcases the research of Avondale affiliated staff from the School of Education published as chapters in books.
Book Chapters from 2022
God's Word, Students, and Christian Classrooms: The Why and How, Barbara J. Fisher and Merle E. Cozens
In Their own Words: Parents Celebrating Teachers and Adventist Education, Vladka Henley
Celebrating 44 Years as a Christian School Teacher: Unchanged Mission in a Changing World, Peter W. Kilgour
Book Chapters from 2021
"In Green Pastures" The Impact of One School's Gardening Program on Children's Perceptions of God and Jesus, Beverly J. Christian, Sandra Ludlow, and Karyn A. Cameron
Revealing Jesus in the Learning Environment: A Look Through the Lens of Teacher Dispositions, Glenda Adelle Faull
The Fury (Baez, 2020) - Art and Transmedial Space, Phil Fitzsimmons
Was Jesus a Fence Sitter? How Christian Teachers can Negotiate Conservatism and Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century Learning Environment, Peter W. Kilgour
Heutagogy and Researcher Education: Unleashing the Power of the Novice Researcher’s Agency, Maria T. Northcote
Exploring Spiritual Intelligence: Are there Implications for Classroom Practice?, Jill Pearce and Anthony Williams
Student Peer Bullying in Christian Schools: Is there a Difference?, Kevin Petrie
Reflections of Community in the Learning Environment, Don C. Roy
School Climate, Keith J. Zullig, Molly R. Matthews-Ewald, and Kevin Petrie
Book Chapters from 2020
Digging Deep to Reveal Jesus: Seeking Light in the Hidden Corners, Karyn Cameron
Revealing Jesus Through Close Encounters in Far Places: How One Bible Lands Study Tour Impacted Christian Educators, Beverly Christian
Australian Adventist Teachers' Perceptions of and Contributions to Mission: School, Self, Church, Stephen J. Currow and Sherene J. Hattingh
How Solomon Islands Adventist Teachers Understand their Role in Relation to the Overall Church Mission, Stephen J. Currow and Sherene J. Hattingh
Teachers Who Reveal Jesus: How do Pre-Service Teachers Perceive their Strengths as Future Educators?, Peter W. Kilgour
At the Troublesome Edge of Recognising Threshold Concepts of Online Teaching: A Proposed Learning Threshold Identification Methodology, Maria T. Northcote, Kevin P. Gosselin, Peter W. Kilgour, Catherine E. McLoughlin, Chris Boddey, and Kerrie Boddey
What Makes Education 'Christian', Don C. Roy
Teaching Challenging Children and Revealing Jesus to Them, Marion Shields
Book Chapters from 2019
Revealing Jesus Through Teacher Relationships: How Educators’ Relationships Impact the Ethos of the Learning Environment, Beverly Christian
Attachment or Antithesis? Middle School Children and Writing as Relational Consciousness, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Pedagogy for Internationalisation: An Australian Secondary School Case Study, Sherene J. Hattingh
NAD Teachers’ Understanding of What Adventist Schools Should be Doing and How Adventist Schools are Different, Sherry J. Hattingh
Beginning of SDA Education in North America, Peter W. Kilgour
Letting Jesus Reveal Himself: The Use of CHAT Methodology in the Christian Learning Environment, Peter W. Kilgour
Healthy Lifestyle Practices and Emotional Well-Being: A Reciprocal Relationship, Darren Morton
The Same but Different: Reframing Contemporary Online Education in Higher Education Towards Quality and Integrity, Maria T. Northcote
Faith Engagement at School, Kevin Petrie, Gary Marsters, David McClintock, Peter Lindsay, Allyson Allen, and Keith Zullig
The Relationship between School Climate and Faith Engagement, Kevin Petrie, Gary Marsters, David McClintock, Peter Lindsay, Allyson Allen, and Keith Zullig
The Challenge, Marion Shields
Book Chapters from 2018
Connecting Children with God through Nature: Why We Should and How We Can, Beverly Christian
Faith Formation and Bible Stories: A Biblical Framework for Nurturing Faith Formation through the Study of Biblical Narratives, Barbara J. Fisher
Turning Dark Pages and Transacting with the Inner Self: Adolescents' Perspectives of Reading Horror Texts, Phil Fitzsimmons
Deconstructing Bible Storytelling With 3-5 Year-Olds, Sandra Ludlow
Integrating the Scholarship of Teaching, Learning and Assessment into One Institution’s Homegrown Professional Learning Resources, Maria T. Northcote, Anthony Williams, Kevin Petrie, Jack Seddon, and Sherry J. Hattingh
Getting on the Online Education Train: The Journey of a Small Higher Education Institution, Anthony Williams and Maria T. Northcote
How are They Going?: A Project to Monitor Student Engagement, Anthony Williams, Maria T. Northcote, and John Reddin
Book Chapters from 2017
An Analysis of the Responses to Open-Ended Questions in the Australian Survey, Sherry J. Hattingh
An Analysis of the Responses to Open-ended Questions in the Solomon Islands' Survey, Sherry J. Hattingh
The Funding of Adventist Schools in the Solomon Islands, Peter W. Kilgour and Joseph Pitakia
Government Funding in Australian Independent Schools, Peter W. Kilgour and Anthony Williams
From Dream to Reality: Sustaining a Higher Education Community of Practice Beyond Initial Enthusiasm, Coralie McCormack, John Gilchrist, Eleanor Hancock, Jesmin Islam, Robert Kennelly, Maria T. Northcote, and Kate Thomson
Transition Post-School: Five Steps Toward Reducing the Hurdles, Marion Shields
Book Chapters from 2016
The Mything Link: The Feminine Voice in the Shifting Australian National Myth, Phil Fitzsimmons
Generation of Authentic Learning and Learners: The Conditions of Learning Underpinning Blended Learning and Online Forums, Phil Fitzsimmons and Peter W. Kilgour
Where Does It Come From? A Summary of Literature Related to Neonatal and the Possible Nature of the Ex-Utero Spirituality Journey, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Taking a Hard Look at the Soft Skills of Online Course Design and Online Teaching in Higher Education, Kevin P. Gosselin, Maria T. Northcote, Kristi Wuensche, and Trudy Stoddard
Reversing the Tyranny of Distance Education: Using Research About Threshold Concepts in Online Teaching to Humanize Online Course Design, Maria T. Northcote, Kevin P. Gosselin, Daniel Reynaud, Peter W. Kilgour, Malcolm Anderson, and Christopher Boddey
Book Chapters from 2015
The Ideal and Idealized School: Spirituality as the Core of Being, Belonging and Becoming, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
An Introduction to the Incurving of Current Issues: Understanding New Perspectives of Spirituality, Edie Lanphar, Agatha Wilczek, and Phil Fitzsimmons
Missing in Action: Looking at the Humanisation of Online Higher Education Through a TPACK Lens, Maria T. Northcote
Book Chapters from 2014
A BaRKing Good Idea, Barbara J. Fisher
Interactive Age-Specific Strategies for Introducing Beginner Readers to the Bible as an Authentic Text, Barbara J. Fisher
Connectivity and Text: Finding Self through the Use of Graphic Novels, Phil Fitzsimmons
At the Core of Creativity: The Conditions of Learning and the Conditions of Connectivity, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Incubating Magic, Mystery and the Macabre: An Author's View of His Writing Process, Phil Fitzsimmons, Edie Lanphar, and Stephen Morris
Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinees and the Representation of the Great War, Phil Fitzsimmons and Daniel Reynaud
Book Chapters from 2013
Spectrums and Spaces of Writing, Phil Fitzsimmons, Zoe Charalambous, and Susan Wiesner
Out of the Mouth of Babes, but the Mind of the Mature: Avid Adolescent Writers Talk about the Process, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Spiritual Awareness within a Religious Frame: A 'Responsive Evaluation' of One School's approach to Chaplaincy, Phil Fitzsimmons, Edie Lanphar, and Barry Hill
Re-engineer Your Environment, John Kelly and Darren Morton
Pre-Service Teachers, Professional Experiences and Culture Shock: 'Enactment and Sense Making' in New Spaces and Places, Barbra McKenzie, Phil Fitzsimmons, Andrew Matthes, Jason Hinze, and Lorinda Bruce
Become What You Believe, Darren Morton
Fix How You Feel, Darren Morton
From Surviving to Thriving, Darren Morton
Made to Move, Darren Morton
Step into Active Living, Darren Morton
Stress-relieving Strategies, Darren Morton
Book Chapters from 2012
When Kids Spiritually Connect: The Sources, Sites and Storying of 'Relational Consciousness', Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Writing, Creativity and the Dark Side, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Book Chapters from 2011
The Labyrinth, Lustrate and Liminal in Requiem for a Beast: The Monster Resurrected as Multi-Modality, Phil Fitzsimmons
The ‘Liminality’ of Evil: Adolescents’ Understanding of Metaphysics in Graphic Novels and Popular Culture, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Unexpected Evils: The Necessity of the Dark Side in Adolescent Narrative, Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
The Paratextual and Precursory Voices of Twilight, Phil Fitzsimmons, Edie Lanphar, and Jess Sanford
Shifts and Shapes of Emotion: Middle School Students’ Perspectives at San Roque, Edie Lanphar and Phil Fitzsimmons
Book Chapters from 2010
Children and Learning, Beverly Christian
Values Education in a Faith-based Context, Beverly Christian
Learning to Know God, Barbara Fisher
Understanding Children and their Faith Formation, Barbara J. Fisher and Sandra Ludlow
Book Chapters from 2009
The State of Pre-service Teacher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, Maria Northcote and Cher P. Lim
Book Chapters from 2007
The Entry Knowledge of Australian Preservice Teachers in the Area of Phonological Awareness and Phonics, Barbara Fisher, Merle E. Bruce, and Cedric Greive
Book Chapters from 2005
Reading Adventure Packs: A Pilot Program Promoting Family Involvement in Children's Literacy Attitudinal Development, Barbara Fisher, Cedric Greive, and Margaret Gill