Isaac Armitage Lecture Invitation

Dear Parents, Carers, Students and Friends of the Shore community

You are warmly invited to attend the annual
Isaac Armitage Lecture
AND, NOT, OR, WITH: the good in education

Friday 8 March 2024
4.00pm – 6.30pm
Shore Library, BH Travers Centre
Blue Street, North Sydney

Speaker: Dr Paul Burgis
PhD (UNSW), MEd, BEd, Dip Tch (Eng/His-sec), Dip Div/Miss
Principal, PLC Croydon

Respondent: Dr Kaye Chalwell
PhD (UNE), MEd, BSc, DipEd, GradDipTheol
Head of Junior School, Rouse Hill Anglican College

Please RSVP by Friday 16 February 2024

Light refreshments will be provided after the Lecture
Parking is available in the Bishopsgate Carpark via Hunter Crescent.

Dr Burgis will speak to introduce ideas from his upcoming book, in which he writes:

‘What is called The Enlightenment has given humanity many new capacities. STEM programs flourish in schools and provide a framework for critical thinking. This is largely based on the word NOT. We are teaching students that all is not as it seems. We must probe deeper. This is important. Yet NOT is not the only important conjunction for thinking. Magnanimity and generosity are at the heart of learning. AND, OR and WITH also matter. And they matter to Christian educators, who sometimes find themselves as the object of the NOT claims.’ 

Dr Chalwell’s response will be followed by a general discussion.

Dr Paul Burgis has been the Principal of PLC since 2011 and recent past Principal of Inaburra School, Menai. Dr Burgis’ previous appointments include Program Director for the Master of Arts in Education and Principal Lecturer in Education at the University of Lancaster UK and he has taught or researched education in NSW, Queensland, Filipino and Zimbabwean schools. Dr Burgis is a strong believer that an education should have both depth and rigour as well as breadth and engagement.

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Enquiries: Chaplaincy Office
T +61 2 9900 4734
chaplainsPA@shore.nsw.edu.au