Dr Charles Justins
Honorary AssociateCharles is the Principal of Mountains Christian College and an adjunct lecturer for Alphacrucis College.
Charlie taught for 32 years, most of those at Tyndale Christian School in Blacktown, but with some time at Marrara Christian School in Darwin and a government secondary school in Sydney. Many of those years have involved the teaching of Mathematics, Commerce, Economics and Studies of Religion. He served at Tyndale as Mathematics coordinator through most of the 1980’s and as Deputy Principal in various configurations from 1991 to 2009. In 2011 he was appointed Principal at Mountains Christian College at Blackheath.
He completed a Doctorate in Education through the Australian Catholic University in 2001 on the topic "Christian Parent-Controlled Schools in Australia – Foundational Values and Prevailing Practices” and has interests in learning styles, educational leadership, maths education and research. He has worked as an adjunct lecturer with the National Institute since 2001 and has been appointed as Senior Lecturer from the beginning of 2010.
Qualifications
DEd (Australian Catholic University) 2002
MEd (University of Sydney) 1993
BDiv (University of Melbourne) 1988
BA (University of Sydney) 1976
DipEd (University of Sydney) 1977
Book Chapters
-
2021
- Justins,C (2021). The Heart of Leadership in Christian Schools In , Heartbeat: Encouraging Biblically-Faithful Christian Education (pp. 69-84). National Institute for Christian Education, Sydney.
-
2019
- Justins, C. (2019). The values driving Christian Parent Controlled Schools today In Ireland J., Edlin, R. & Dickens, K. (Eds.), Pointing the way: Directions for Christian education in a new millennium (pp. ). National Institute for Christian Education: Blacktown, NSW, Australia.
-
2006
- Justins, C. (2006). Preparing teachers to teach in a multicultural and multireligious context: The approach of the National Institute for Christian Education In Edlin, R. & Ireland J. (Eds.), Engaging the culture: Christians at work in education (pp. ). National Institute for Christian Education: Blacktown, NSW, Australia.
-
2004
- Justins, C. (2004). The values that motivated the pioneers of Christian Parent Controlled Schools In Ireland J., Edlin, R. & Dickens, K. (Eds.), Pointing the way: Directions for Christian education in a new millennium (pp. ). National Institute for Christian Education: Blacktown, NSW, Australia.
Journal Articles
-
2019
- Justins, C (2019). Christian Schooling and Educational Excellence: An Australian Perspective. Journal of Education and Christian Belief, Vol. 13, No. 1 49-64.
-
2003
- Justins, C. (2003). Values under pressure – Christian schooling in a market economy. College of Christian Education E-Journal, .
Internal and External Grants
-
2003
- Award for Outstanding Educational Research, NSW Institute of Educational Research
Engagement Publications
Journal Articles
-
2010
- Justins, C (2010). League tables: (Schooling - another national sport?). Christian Teachers Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1.
-
2009
- Justins, C (2009). Purpose of mathematics: Some preliminary thoughts. Christian Teachers Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4.
-
2006
- Justins, C (2006). Maths and Christianity. Christian Teachers Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4.
-
2003
- Justins, C (2003). Service week - Tyndale Christian School. Christian Teachers Journal, Vol. 11 No. 3.
- Justins, C (2003). Student Graduates: Are we producing the goods?. Christian Teachers Journal, Vol. 6 No. 2.
Current Supervision
-
Current
- White, T, The impact a ‘Christ transformer of culture’ vision for Christian education has had on the curriculum and educational practices of Christian Education National (CEN) schools. (PhD thesis)