UGANDA'S CHURCH POLICY IN EDUCATION
UGANDA'S CHURCH POLICY IN EDUCATION
THE INTEGRATION OF FAITH IN CHURCH FOUNDED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Majority parents and guardians take their children in church founded institutions because of the Christian values that are imparted in learners. In recent years, gains in moral judgement have become one of the greatest expectations of an educational experience not just with maturation. Students at Christian related schools are exposed to a curriculum that leads to high moral judgement.Entering the gates of a church founded educational institution gives you the welcome warmth of God's presence with the mission statements, motto and church flag raised.
The mission of missionaries who came to Uganda in the late 1880's was to establish educational institutions that would help to spread the Gospel and making disciples for Christ Jesus. They founded educational institutions for developing a new generation of clergy and layleaders who will commit boldly to Christ and be characterised by intellectual excellence, moral and spiritual courage, and holiness of heart and life.
The church in Uganda has integrated faith in all its founded schools. There is a compulsory observance of Christian festivals that fall within the time that children are at school. These include Easter, Christmas, Martyrs day to mention but a few.
In every school, there is a chapel erected only as a place of celebrating and worshipping God. To that effect, children hold their every Sunday services from the chapel, and they hold their born-again fellowships and prayers from the chapel. All Christian activities in school are monitored by a chaplain who is appointed and posted by the founding church. The chaplain is assisted by a born again teacher selected from the school staff. The students have their administration that is elected every year to assist in chapel work.
In every school there is a Christian (scripture) union for those that confess Christ as their personal Lord and saviour. This works as a non denominational Christian association and so, cuts across the various church doctrines in Uganda.
Children are given the opportunity to attend fellowships within and outside the school upon approval of the school administration and the chaplain. The fellowships outside the school take the form of seminars, conferences and workshops in which children organise and invite speakers and participants under the guidance of scripture union patron/teacher and chaplain. In these Christian conferences, many children have received Christ as their saviour at such an early stage of life and consequently have been nurtured in Christian principles.
Finally, the church founded schools and government schools have incorporated into the curriculum a course of study called Christian Religious Education(CRE) that is taught by professional teachers. The aims of CRE are:
-To deepen the students' understanding of religious dimensions of life as contained in the Biblical revelation, Christian history, African culture, and contemporary Christian thought.
-To enable students to develop insights into religious values and to relate these values to life as a basis for judgements and choices in a changing and developing African society
-To give the students a deeper understanding of the basis of the Christian faith and its relevance to life today.
-To lay an adequate academic foundation for those who wish to pursue it at a specialist level.
To fulfil the last objective, the church in Uganda established theological institutions for those that feel called to serve God as ministers in church. In these institutions, almost all the bishops and great preachers attended.
Currently, some of these theological institutions that used to offer diploma certificates have been elevated to University status to offer degrees in faith courses( such as Bachelor of Divinity, Bachelor of Theology) as well as secular courses( such as humanities, social sciences).
In Uganda Christian university, for instance, secular courses have been made to take faith related course units such as Old Testament Survey, New Testament Survey and Christian World View. These course units are compulsory for every student at University. Besides, every student must adhere to a Christian student code of conduct that must be observed. It stipulates the faith and virtues expected at University. Such is a glance of the Uganda's church policy in education.
THE INTEGRATION OF FAITH IN CHURCH FOUNDED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Majority parents and guardians take their children in church founded institutions because of the Christian values that are imparted in learners. In recent years, gains in moral judgement have become one of the greatest expectations of an educational experience not just with maturation. Students at Christian related schools are exposed to a curriculum that leads to high moral judgement.Entering the gates of a church founded educational institution gives you the welcome warmth of God's presence with the mission statements, motto and church flag raised.
The mission of missionaries who came to Uganda in the late 1880's was to establish educational institutions that would help to spread the Gospel and making disciples for Christ Jesus. They founded educational institutions for developing a new generation of clergy and layleaders who will commit boldly to Christ and be characterised by intellectual excellence, moral and spiritual courage, and holiness of heart and life.
The church in Uganda has integrated faith in all its founded schools. There is a compulsory observance of Christian festivals that fall within the time that children are at school. These include Easter, Christmas, Martyrs day to mention but a few.
In every school, there is a chapel erected only as a place of celebrating and worshipping God. To that effect, children hold their every Sunday services from the chapel, and they hold their born-again fellowships and prayers from the chapel. All Christian activities in school are monitored by a chaplain who is appointed and posted by the founding church. The chaplain is assisted by a born again teacher selected from the school staff. The students have their administration that is elected every year to assist in chapel work.
In every school there is a Christian (scripture) union for those that confess Christ as their personal Lord and saviour. This works as a non denominational Christian association and so, cuts across the various church doctrines in Uganda.
Children are given the opportunity to attend fellowships within and outside the school upon approval of the school administration and the chaplain. The fellowships outside the school take the form of seminars, conferences and workshops in which children organise and invite speakers and participants under the guidance of scripture union patron/teacher and chaplain. In these Christian conferences, many children have received Christ as their saviour at such an early stage of life and consequently have been nurtured in Christian principles.
Finally, the church founded schools and government schools have incorporated into the curriculum a course of study called Christian Religious Education(CRE) that is taught by professional teachers. The aims of CRE are:
-To deepen the students' understanding of religious dimensions of life as contained in the Biblical revelation, Christian history, African culture, and contemporary Christian thought.
-To enable students to develop insights into religious values and to relate these values to life as a basis for judgements and choices in a changing and developing African society
-To give the students a deeper understanding of the basis of the Christian faith and its relevance to life today.
-To lay an adequate academic foundation for those who wish to pursue it at a specialist level.
To fulfil the last objective, the church in Uganda established theological institutions for those that feel called to serve God as ministers in church. In these institutions, almost all the bishops and great preachers attended.
Currently, some of these theological institutions that used to offer diploma certificates have been elevated to University status to offer degrees in faith courses( such as Bachelor of Divinity, Bachelor of Theology) as well as secular courses( such as humanities, social sciences).
In Uganda Christian university, for instance, secular courses have been made to take faith related course units such as Old Testament Survey, New Testament Survey and Christian World View. These course units are compulsory for every student at University. Besides, every student must adhere to a Christian student code of conduct that must be observed. It stipulates the faith and virtues expected at University. Such is a glance of the Uganda's church policy in education.
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