School chaplains - Rationale Magazine

20 Oct

Our window of opportunity to remove Christian influence from wellbeing roles in public schools

20/10/2024
By Rosemary Lynch
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It is almost 20 years since the then Prime Minister John Howard unveiled funding for the National School Chaplaincy Program (NSCP) to "...

21 Oct

Philosophy & Psychology

How counsellors help children understand their worth

Douglas Adams, of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame, reminds us that a person’s reality is unique to the person. “Ev...

04 Oct

Letters to the Editor

Over-Priced in the Northern Territory

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13 May

Education

Key statements absent from policies for new student wellbeing program

13/05/2023
By Si Gladman
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Two states are so far failing to implement the new National Student Wellbeing Program (NSWP) as agreed with the Albanese government, wi...

01 Oct

Education

School chaplains and the strategy of ‘saving souls’

01/10/2022
By Si Gladman
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Many parents at public schools will have little clue that their kids are being targeted as “souls to be saved” by churches and missiona...

22 Jun

Education

Give schools a real choice on secular school chaplains

15/07/2022
By Luke Beck
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New federal Education Minister Jason Clare has announced a change to the National School Chaplaincy Program to allow schools to ...

16 Jun

Education

What’s so offensive about secularism?

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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Demonising secularism has become something of a sport for the religious right in the United States. Secularists are routinely painted a...

10 Jun

Education

Why God has no place in public schools

15/07/2022
By Jane Caro
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As I sat in my classrooms at Frenchs Forest Public, Chatswood Public and Forest High, dreaming about my future, I did not think that de...

02 Feb

Education

How the school chaplaincy program crosses a line

23/07/2022
By Si Gladman
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Last month, as Queensland stepped up its efforts to vaccinate children before the start of the school year as the Omicron COVID-19 vari...

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