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Browsing Masters Theses by Subject "D - Religious Education"

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    A New Vision for Science Education: Spirituality, Contemplation and Transformation.
    (2009-05-08) Jane, Beverley L
    Informed by socio-cultural-historical theory, this thesis argues that scientific creativity can emerge from the discernment of a spiritual connection with the organisms studied. It is suggested that by engaging students in the essentially relational world of nature, a transformative science education, incorporating both science and spirituality, is possible and desirable.
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    A Study of Religious Education Pedagogy for Second Generation Korean Australian Adolescents: Threefold Structure for an Alternative Model to the Schooling Paradigm
    (2010) Park, Jong
    Since the first official Korean immigrants arrived in Australia in 1969 under the Skilled Migration programme, few academic inquiries have been made regarding Religious Education pedagogy for the second-generation Korean-Australian (hereafter SGKA) adolescents. Until now, most of the Korean ethnic churches in Australia, including the Korean-Australian Reformed church (hereafter the KAR church), have been utilising the first-generation-dominated schooling (hereafter FGD schooling) paradigm as a primary pedagogy of Religious Education for SGKA teenagers. While the schooling model is useful in many Religious educational settings, I argue that it is not effective for the education of the said adolescents in the context of the KAR church. The premise of my argument is that the FGD schooling Religious Education does not take into account the context of the immigrant church as a contact zone as well as the issue of identity crisis which is faced by many SGKA adolescents as a result of being found between two cultures: the Australian and Korean cultures. As a result, contents and methods of Religious Education of the KAR church tend to be inadequate to enable SGKA teenagers to open their minds and accept the Christian faith appropriately. This situation has presented the need for alternative Religious education pedagogy to the schooling paradigm which is both appropriate and effective for the second-generation Korean-Australian adolescents
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    An investigation into the use of film and literature in the Christian education of children aged 10-12years.
    (2009-05-08) Allred, Brent
    Using theories of media literacy amongst children, this thesis explores the role of popular cultural artefacts in engaging children with biblical truth and in assisting in their spiritual formation. Particular attention is given to the ways in which children’s imaginative faculties help them interpret what they watch and read.
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    Making Theology Accessible: Empowering Christians to do their own Theology
    (2011-03-02) Hunter, Nathan
    Noting a gap between the understandings of the ecclesia and academia, this thesis explores how ‘good theological process’ can become widely accessible to the church community at large. It surveys some significant ways in which theology has been defined in the past to create a framework for evaluating helpful theological processes, defined in this thesis as ‘working theology’. Having drawn some conclusions regarding what such processes might look like, it explores why such processes are seemingly scarce in the everyday activity of the church community. It seeks opinions about theology from six members of an Australian evangelical church through semi-structured interviews, using a central allegory as a key discussion point. Interviewees offer perspectives on the challenges of theology from a non-academic viewpoint. The interviews identify that transparent leadership, humble teaching, companionship, accessible resources and theological translators all have vital roles to play in Making Theology Accessible.