Learning Conversations: Recovering Achievement Addict with Dr Justine Toh

Would you consider yourself an achievement junkie? Many high school students fear that their ATAR result will be a summary of not just their schooling career, but also their individual worth. How do we view success? Is it something we earn through our efforts and striving or as a matter of grace, or luck even? In this episode, Lyndal speaks with author and recovering achievement addict, Dr Justine Toh as well as Jess Meaco, who is a teacher of Ancient History and Inaburra’s Learning Leader of Biblical Studies, about meritocracy. The conversation explores connections between a constant striving for significance and the experience of shame, the impact of meritocracy in our educational system, and finding an antidote to achievement addiction.

Achievement Addiction
Justine Toh
https://www.koorong.com/product/achievement-addiction-re-considering-series-justine-toh_9780647531327

The Prophetic Imagination
Walter Brueggemann
https://www.koorong.com/product/the-prophetic-imagination-2nd-edition-walter-brueggemann_0800632877

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