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Topic 1 - History of religious education in Australia and more recent developments

· Barnabas Fund. (2018).  Turn the Tide  - Reclaiming Religious Freedom in Australia. Virginia: Isaac Publishing.

· Buckingham, J. 2010,  The Rise of Religious Schools in Australia , Centre for Independent Studies 

· Hastie, D. (2014, February 14).  What’s the future of Australian Christian education? Review of ‘Taking God to School’

· Maddox, M. (2014, March 21).  Too much faith in schools: The rise of Christian Schooling in Australia .

· Toh, J. (2014, March 5).  The elephants in the (class)room: Why faith-based religious education has a place in public schools

Topic 2 - The nature and purpose of education in contemporary pluralistic societies

· Biesta, G. (2015). What is education for? European Journal of Education 50(1)

· Toh, J. (2014)  Challenging individualism. Teaching Well

· P Karamouziz (2009)  Religions, education and democracy the necessity of inter-religious education in the modern public system

· Fraser, J. (2016)  Between church and state: Religion and public education in multicultural America. (pp 1 -7)

· Podcast Q and A: A spiritual special: John Lennox 2011 (last 10 minutes on faith in schools) ABC  http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3266962.htm

· The Melbourne Declaration (2008).

Topic 3 - Different types and forms of Christian/ religious education in different contexts

· Karamouziz, P. (2009)  Religions, education and democracy the necessity of inter-religious education in the modern public system

· Edlin, R. (2017) Religion, secularism & Australian education.  In Better Learning

· Smith, J.K.A. (2016) Re-Imagining Religion in a Secular Age

· Burgis, P. (2014) Christian education in a secular environment. In  Teaching Well

Topic 4 - The place of Biblical content and Biblical perspectives in Religious education:

· A Orr Ewing (2015) Why trust the Bible? https://vimeo.com/230109941

· Thompson, R. (2012)   Scriptures, worldview and education  The Christian Teachers Journal ; October 2012 (pp 22 – 25)

· Pazmino, R. (2008)  Foundational Issues in Christian Education  

· Cooling, T. (2014). Enabling the Bible to control learning in Teaching Well

· Holland, R. (2017)  Bible Shaped Learning  in Better Learning.

· Lecture PPT Slides

Topic 5 - Benefits and limitations of the use of worldviews as an integrating concept in Christian/religious education

· New Internationalist (2011) Are religious schools bad for society? Humanist Andrew Copson and feminist Catholic theologian Tina Beattie go head-to-head... https://newint.org/sections/argument/2011/11/01/religious-schooling-debate-on-faith-schools

· Edlin, R. (2015)  Christian Schools are Good News for society at large.

· Cardus Education Survey (April, 2018) Making the transition: the effect of school sector on extended adolescence.

· Pearcey, N. (2016)  Beyond worldview: equipping teens for a postmodern world.

· Walsh, B. (2012)  Precarious Times : Postmodernity and a Christian Worldview. Christian Teachers Journal.

Topic 6 - Spiritual learning and maturation as a process related to other forms of development and learning

· Melbourne Declaration of Educational Goals for Young Australians (2008)

· Queensland Catholic Education Commission (2010)  Spiritual Development and Religious Education in the Early Years: A Review of the Literature

· Early Learning Framework for Australia “ Belonging , Being and Becoming” (2009)

· Ashton, J. (2017). Warm engagement: the starting point to early childhood learning . In Better Learning

· Maple, J. (2014). Teaching and learning. In Teaching Well

Topic 7 - The nature of learning in the 21st century and its implications for religious education

· McCrindle Infographic 2017 Faith and Belief  https://faithandbelief.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Faith-and-Belief-in-Australia-Infographic_McCrindle_2017-UPDATED.pdf

· McCrindle Infographic 2018 Generation Z http://www.mccrindle.com.au/the-mccrindle-blog/generation-z-the-world-s-largest-generation

· Cowling, B. (2017)  Shifting the paradigm in education  in Better Learning

· Tredinnick, A. (2017)  Counter-cultural Christianity  in Better Learning

· Winter, B. (2014) Learning for Living in first and twenty-first centuries in Teaching Well.

· AHISA. (2018). Religious Freedom Review. Campbell: Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia.

Topic 8 - Suspicion of authority and religion and its implications for religious education:

· Buckingham, J. (2010).  The Rise of Religious Schools.

· McClean, J. (2018). Are We Now In a Post-Post Christian Pagan Australia? The Gospel Coalition  https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/now-post-post-christian-pagan-australia/

· Cooling, T. (2014). Enabling the Bible to control learning in Teaching Well

· Cooling, T. (2017). The threat to better learning in Christian Education  in Better Learning.

Topic 9 - Religious cognition and spiritual awareness as key resources for learning in religious education settings

· Holland, R. (2016).  A Christian Mind . The Christian teachers Journal 

· Wilson, P. (2017). Integrating academic knowledge and life experience. The twin classrooms of deep learning in Better Learning

· George, T. (2017).  Human knowing and the disciplines  in Better Learning

· Collinson, S. (2014). Jesus as teacher  in Teaching Well

· Smith, C. (2014). Paul as teacher  in Teaching Well

Topic 10 - Reflective practice in religious education – content and delivery

· G Maple (2014) Children and adolescents in Teaching Well. 

· S Renn (2017)  Bible Knowledge  i n Better Learning

Topic 11 - Assessment in Religious Education

· McGonigle, J. (2017) The impact of marking and feedback on student character  in Better Learning

· Green, B. (2017) Measuring complexity in the classroom  in Better Learning

Topic 12 - Alternatives to didactic methodologies

· Collier, J. (2013)  Models of Christian education   in Teach v7 n1

· Van Dyk, J. (2012) Teaching Christianly: What is it?  Christian Teachers Journal

· Pietsch, J. (2017)  Developing the virtuous learning character  in Better Learning