S2 Ep.3: “Staying Mission True” : The Challenge for Christian Schools in Australia | Dr Darren Iselin and Dr Graeme Cross
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In this episode Darren Iselin talks with Dr Graeme Cross Chief Executive Officer of the Swan Cristian Education Association (SCEA), a network of seven schools located in the Perth metropolitan area. Graeme has extensive senior leadership experience in both schools and universities and has an expert knowledge of education and the Christian schooling sector.
Over the past 60 years, the flourishing of Christian schooling across Australia has been significant and far reaching. Such growth and development has led to increasingly changing enrolment patterns in many Christian schools that present both challenges and opportunities to Christian school cultures. Graeme explores the importance of sustaining core vision within both covenantal and missional schools models of Christian schooling into the future and uses a quadrant school culture model to re-frame the conversation regarding Christian schooling in the 21stcentury. Graeme explores the challenges for both models in a contemporary age and cautions about the potential for mission drift within both models unless leaders are highly intentional about their core purpose in a rapidly changing socio-cultural setting.
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