AIM
Our hope for the International Transforming Education Conference of 2024 is that it will be an engaging and transformational experience that proclaims the Lordship of Christ in this “new day” of Christian education. Our desire is to see this Lordship over every aspect of Christian schools: teaching, supporting, leading and governing.
THEME
Reimagining Practice
Our International Transforming Education Conferences ask questions about the transformation of educational practice in Christian schools and other places of learning. They also seek to ask questions of Christian education’s effectiveness in transforming the heart, mind, and life of every student. ITEC19, on the banks of the Torrens River in Adelaide, Australia, is no different. It seeks to ask, “How can we use our God-given creativity and imagination to consider better practice in the classrooms, playgrounds, staff rooms, and board rooms of Christian learning places?”.
Christian education finds itself in a cultural moment characterised by an accelerating push towards a humanistic and self-autonomous framing of life and world. Are our current practices best placed to support students to navigate learning about themselves and their world in this context? What creative reimagining of practice would it be timely to consider, and reconsider?
Through God’s common grace, we see exciting innovation across the educational landscape towards deeper learning and a subsequent willingness to reimagine educational practice. There is a growing enthusiasm for innovation in teaching and learning. As secular education breaks free of the institutional shackles of modernity, Christian education must be willing to critically embrace pedagogical innovation and challenge traditional structures and practices.
It is our desire to provide a space for optimistic and biblically critical dialogue at this pivotal moment. We commit this conference to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ through our desire to transform education and reimagine practice; this is our deep hope.
KEY DATES
| Registration Open | 7 June 2018 |
| Early Bird Registration Closed | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Program Released | TBA |
AIM
Our hope for the International Transforming Education Conference of 2024 is that it will be an engaging and transformational experience that proclaims the Lordship of Christ in this “new day” of Christian education. Our desire is to see this Lordship over every aspect of Christian schools: teaching, supporting, leading and governing.
THEME: Nova Diem – A New Day
Every four years, Christian Education National is pleased to present an international conference with the objective of enabling all participants to wonder about the transformation of educational practice in Christian education.
In 2024, Perth will host such a gathering. It will challenge teachers, leaders, support staff and directors regarding better practice and beautiful, transforming works that inspire and bring glory to God in the hope of Nova Diem – a ‘new day’.
Christian education plays a significant part in the Australian landscape in a cultural moment where increasing intolerance for the gospel, and for those who embrace it, is clearly evident.
Set within the backdrop of a post-pandemic world and increasingly humanistic endeavours, we are committed to knowing God’s word and seeking His promises in this new day. This commitment is founded on a sure hope in God, and on a resolve to better living, loving and learning.
It is our desire, under the theme of Nova Diem, to be immersed in a conference experience that explores biblically sound teaching, innovative pedagogy and practice, faithful leadership, and gracious and hopeful governance.
We commit ITEC24 to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ through our enthusiastic desire to transform education, to continue to reimagine our practice, and to proclaim His Lordship over all of life. This is our deep hope.
ITEC19 Photo Gallery
Check out the great time we had at ITEC19 
