The Practice and Contributions of Indigenous Church Education In Ethiopia: Some Implication to Modern Education
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shibeshi, Ayalew(Ass. Pro. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Asrat, Abinet | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-28T08:57:25Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T09:00:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-28T08:57:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T09:00:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/28373 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AAU | en_US |
| dc.subject | Learning in church education is active and emphasizes on cooperative learning. I | en_US |
| dc.title | The Practice and Contributions of Indigenous Church Education In Ethiopia: Some Implication to Modern Education | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |