Cancelled: ACLE6 Sharing: Perspectives from SA Lutheran School Cultural Research

Please note this event has been cancelled

Sue Kupke recently shared one part of her doctoral research at ACLE6 in July at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. An opportunity exists for others to hear this presentation, reflect on the findings, and consider how they might apply to their own learning community’s context.

Sue’s abstract reads:

Previous doctoral research by Dr Ian Marks over 20 years ago explored the culture of Queensland Lutheran primary and secondary schools from the perspectives of adults. The very limited additional research focusing on Lutheran school culture since Dr Marks’s research led Sue Kupke to explore factors of influence on culture within a Lutheran primary school in South Australia. However, in her research teachers, parents and students were all invited to be active participants in the primary data collection method of photographic elicitation interviews. This method engaged participants in taking photos of aspects of the school they perceived as special and then elaborating on why the images were special. Initial findings from this research indicate that the voices and perspectives of students were noticeably different from those of adults. This presentation will share some of the differing adult and student perspectives, their significance in research and for Lutheran education, and what this might mean for educators in Lutheran schools.

This event is open to all staff within LESNW learning communities who are interested in hearing this presentation.