How Are a Teacher's Knowledge and Skills Regarding the Use of Life Approach Useful for Teaching Christian Religious Education?

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Theology - Didactics, Religion Pedagogy, grade: B, Moi University, language: English, abstract: The Kenya National Examination Council reports for 2011, 2012 and 2013 show a decline in Christian Religious Education performance. The purpose of this mixed method, exploratory research study is to analyze and evaluate teachers' knowledge and skills on use the of Life Approach in teaching Christian Religious Education among teachers in public secondary schools within Bungoma County, Kenya.

The specific objectives were to determine teachers' knowledge on Life Approach in the teaching of Christian Religious Education, determine the pre-service and in-service training level of teachers of Christian Religious Education in the use of Life Approach in teaching Christian Religious Education, generating and analyzing teachers' attitudes towards the use of Life Approach in teaching Christian Religious Education in public secondary schools in Bungoma County and lastly, determine teachers' utilization of the Life Approach in teaching Christian Religious Education.

This study was guided by the Rogers and Frieberg theory of experiential learning.The study utilized the exploratory research design. There were 206 public secondary schools with about 400 teachers of Christian Religious Education. The population of this study comprised all teachers of Christian Religious Education teachers in Bungoma County. Ten percent of the schools were selected using stratified sampling on the basis of national, county and sub-county schools. From each selected school, 2 CRE teachers were randomly selected using probability sampling procedures. To collect data the questionnaire, interview guides, document analysis and observation schedule were used. Descriptive statistics method was used to facilitate data exploration for better understanding of issues.