Published date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
By: Trevor Cairney
Technology developments have changed the way we communicate. This article considers the impact of the Internet on communication, learning and truth. It is indisputable that the Internet has changed the way most people obtain information and communicate with one another. But there are many questions about where it might take us. In particular, I have been contemplating how the Internet impacts on the knowledge we gain from it and the way we view the
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Published date: Wednesday, April 08, 2009
By: Trevor Cairney
In the editorial for Case 18, Trevor Cairney summarises some of the major themes across all articles in this issue and discusses the importance of architecture and planning in the city.
When police broke into an apartment in Sydney in January 2008 and found the decomposed body of 61-year-old Jorge Coloma, there was much community discussion of how his absence could have gone unnoticed for over a year. He had died from natural causes. No one
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Published date: Saturday, September 01, 2007
By: Trevor Cairney
Aligning biblical wisdom and research.
In this article Trevor Cairney considers how closely research evidence and biblical wisdom are aligned and concludes that there is much that they have in common.
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Published date: Saturday, July 17, 2004
By: Trevor Cairney & Greg Clarke
Do religious perspectives have any place within the activities of the secular university today? Trevor Cairney and Greg Clarke suggest they do, and that a genuine intellectual pluralism would welcome them.
Specific Worldviews in Tertiary Education: a way forward
Pluralism and specific religious belief (Greg Clarke)
In a recent article in The Australian newspaper’s Higher Education supplement, Professor Elspeth Probyn of the Department of Gender
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Training too hard?
Published date: Thursday, July 01, 2004
By: Trevor Cairney
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Does the Bible get overused in educational theory? And does mainstream research get ignored by Christian practitioners? Trevor Cairney explores a book guilty of both.
Douglas Wilson’s book The Paideia of God derives its title from one word within Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. In Ephesians 6 Paul addresses the relationship and authority patterns between parents and children , particularly writing to fathers:
"Fathers, do not exasperate your
Advice to Christian teachers
Published date: Wednesday, April 14, 2004
By: Trevor Cairney
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Faced with entering the teaching profession after graduation, what is in store for a teacher who is a Christian? A graduation address by Professor Trevor Cairney.
This is an occasion to recognise above all that the graduands have achieved a significant milestone. But it’s not just the students’ milestone. Graduations should acknowledge the contribution made by teachers and the institution itself. As well, at any graduation it is also important to
Published date: Thursday, January 01, 2004
By: Trevor Cairney
Professor of Education, Trevor Cairney responds to the proposed reforms to higher education in Australia.
Unless you’ve been overseas for the last year you will have heard that the federal minister for education, Dr Brendan Nelson, has been reviewing higher education. Education (like health) has always been an important political agenda. While all Australians receive school education, not all are privileged to gain a place in university education.
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Published date: Monday, September 01, 2003
By: Trevor Cairney
How does a scholar’s faith commitment affect how she or he teaches and researches? Should there be a connection. Trevor Cairney reviews his own career in education through the lens of his Christian faith.
One of the aims of CASE is to challenge Christian scholars to consider more fully the relationship of faith to their scholarship. In doing this CASE encourages the expression of views across a wide range of fields of study that are informed by
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