Challenging overseas professional experiences fostering a sense of freedom and belonging lead to better learning for pre-service teachers, research by an Avondale lecturer shows.
Belonging, being and becoming
Monday, September 18, 2017Avondale has helped establish the first association for Christian early childhood educators in Australia at an inaugural conference organised and hosted by its Discipline of Education.
Go fund me . . . please
Monday, July 10, 2017The quality of proposals pitched by students for new community services has inspired staff members at Avondale to more than double donations for the projects.
Seafarers
Friday, December 9, 2016Outdoor recreation students from Avondale have guided a group of teenagers on a four-day sea kayaking expedition in the Whitsundays.
My MOTO mission
Friday, October 21, 2016Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained enlightenment in Bodhgaya, a town in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The Director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Bihar, Pr Alex Dang, describes the region as the “graveyard of Christianity.” But I presented an evangelistic series with Alex at the AoZora school near Bodhgaya. The result: the planting of a Seventh-day Adventist church at the school.
MOTO’s greater vision
Friday, October 21, 2016A school that began under a tree is changing lives in one of India’s most impoverished states with support from alumni and friends of Avondale.