Dr Elizabeth Beech

Dr Elizabeth Beech

Director of Graduate Studies

Beth recently returned to Australia after establishing new Graduate Studies Programs in Organizational Leadership and Marriage and Family Therapy at Toccoa Falls College in northeast Georgia, USA.

Previously, Beth was the Academic Dean of the National Institute for Christian Education (NICE) in New South Wales, the postgraduate arm of Christian Education National. Her passion is instilling a transformative biblical worldview perspective in education and leadership related to teaching, curriculum, administration, and school governance throughout Australia and beyond. Beth previously served as assistant director of international and multicultural programs at Palm Beach Atlantic University before originally moving to Australia in 2015.

Beth spent 21 years on the mission field in Bolivia, South America, where she raised four children while church-planting in the rural Andes mountains. She later served in various roles at the Universidad Evangelica Boliviana, participating in teaching and university administration as well as overseeing the establishment of accreditation procedures and other projects.

Elizabeth (Beth) Beech is the Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Education.

Qualifications

PhD (Regent University)
Dissertation Title ). Servant leadership in Bolivia: A phenomenological study of long-term effects of a founding servant leader on two educational organizations 2011

MTh Studies (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) 2017

MA (Soc.Sci.) (Azusa Pacific University) 1999

BA (Sociology) (Asbury University) 1984

Journal Articles

  • 2019
    • Beech, G. R. & Beech, E. G.(2019). Research as the un-hiding of God’s knowledge. African Journal for Transformational Scholarship, 3 3-12.
    • Beech, G. R. & Beech, E. G.(2019). An ‘integrality’ model for teaching. International Christian Community of Teacher Educators (ICCTE) Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1 1-7. | Link to journal
  • 2018
    • Beech, G. R. & Beech, E. G.(2018). A redefinition of leadership: What on Earth did we think we were doing?. Christian Teachers Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 8-11.
  • 2016
    • Beech, G. R. & Beech, E. G.(2016). Lehrkunst: Deep learning for transformation. Christian Teachers Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3 16-18.

Presentations

Academic Conference

  • 2019
    • Towards a conceptual model for Biblical transformative online learning (2019), ACHEA Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 02 Aug 2019
    • A Kuyperian idea, and the allusive ideal, of community in education (2019), Kuyper Conference: Christ and Community, Grand Rapids, USA, 23 Apr 2019
      Co-presenter: Beech, G.
  • 2018
    • Divinely appointed restorative leadership for a fallen world (2018), IAPCHE All Africa Conference on Integral Christian Scholarship in Africa, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 06 Nov 2018
    • Photo elicitation metaphors for determining postgraduate course efficacy (2018), Conference Proceedings, International Conference for Christian Educators: Modelling Christ's Love and Hope in Professional Practice, Tauranga, New Zealand, 11 Apr 2018
    • From integration to integrity (2018), Christian mind in the emerging world: Academic faith integration in Asian contexts from a global perspective, Hong Kong, 25 Jan 2018
      Co-presenter: Beech, G.
  • 2012
    • Leadership in the English Language Classroom (2012), XXI Convention on Teaching and Learning English, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 07 Sep 2012

Engagement Publications

Books

  • 2019
    • Beech, G. & Beech, E. (2019). Transforming elephants: Deep transformation in Christian schooling. Lifeworld Education: Sydney.

Book Chapters

  • 2018
    • Beech, G. R., & Beech E. G.(2018). From integration to integrity In W. T. Leung, P. T. M. Ng, & V. K. T. Mak (Eds.), Christian mind in the emerging world: Academic faith integration in Asian contexts from a global perspective (pp. 90-113). Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK.
  • 2013
    • Beech, E., Abi-Hashem, N. & Driscoll, E. G.(2013). Cultural anthropology In K. D. Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cross-cultural psychology (pp. ). Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.
    • Beech, E., Abi-Hashem, N. & Driscoll, E. G.(2013). Schwartz, Shalom—Power, Security, Tradition In K. D. Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cross-cultural psychology (pp. ). Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.
    • Beech, E., Abi-Hashem, N. & Driscoll, E. G.(2013). Gardiner, Harry W. In K. D. Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cross-cultural psychology (pp. ). Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.
    • Beech, E., Abi-Hashem, N. & Driscoll, E. G.(2013). Mishra, Ramesh C. In K. D. Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cross-cultural psychology (pp. ). Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, MA.

Professional Memberships

Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) (since 2018)

Christian Educators Professional Association (since 2018)

Scholarly Christian Educators Group (since 2018)

Current Supervision

  • Current
    • White, T, TBA (MPhil thesis)
    • Arthur, S, Inquiry into teachers’ preparedness working with students who have neurodiverse needs (MPhil thesis)

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