The Practice and Contributions of Indigenous Church Education In Ethiopia: Some Implication to Modern Education
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2021-08
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This study was intended to investigate the practices and contributions of indigenous church
education to modern education in general and school of reading in particular in three selected
indigenous Church School of Addis Ababa Diocese. Descriptive survey design was used, and
mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative) research method was applied. Purposive sampling
method was used for selecting the sample of scholars, priests, deacons and laities. The main tools
of data gathering were questionnaire, interview. Data gathered were coded, tabulated and
analyzed for each group. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and
percentage).
As the findings of the study revealed that the indigenous church education has its own Academic,
social, and moral and spiritual values and it has great contributions to modern education by
laying a foundation for today‟s modern curriculum, instructional methods, and texts design and
assignment techniques. The Nibab – Bet (School of Reading) has also a great contribution to
modern education by placed a foundation for solving a current problem of reading and
understanding in modern education.
Church education has the following strengths: Learning in church education is active and
emphasizes on cooperative learning. It enhances the capacity of rethinking, memorization and
imagination; avoids repeated mistakes. Whereas it has the following limitations: It lacks
responsible body for running these schools. It lacks a suitable learning place. It lacks proper
utilization of time; there exists wastage of time.
This study proposed the following ways transferring church education experiences into modern
schooling. i) Exchanging experiences among each others. ii) Conducting research on church
education and applying its findings. iii) Encouraging church scholars to participate in modern
school to share their experiences.
Based on the result of the study, it is recommended that the government should build a teaching
learning center like modern education to resolve the lack of teaching learning places; the
government, private agency and non government organizations should support learners by
funding financially and providing learning materials and considering the contributions of church
education ministry of education should give attention and recognize church education as one
basic education centers for the society.
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