Assessment of Life-Approach Method of Teaching CRS

I wrote this book with the intention of making my study available to undergraduate student-teachers and all senior high school teachers.This book is also useful to master students who are in the field of curriculum studies.It is asumed that readers of this book will be familiar with how to teach Christian Religious Studies in the senior high school The study assessed the use of Life-Approach method of teaching Christian Religious Studies in Senior High Schools in the Brong Ahafo Region. To be specific, the study looked at the use of the method, problems associated with its use, instructional resources available to support its use and how teachers instructional practices conform to the Life-Approach method. The descriptive survey design was employed to carry out the study. The purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 36 teachers and 319 students of Christian Religious Studies (CRS). Questionnaire and observation guide were the instruments used in collecting the data. The data were analysed through the computation of frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation. CRS teachers use the Life-Approach method to a large extent.

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About the AuthorMartin Owusu is a Principal Research Assistant in the Department of Arts and Social Sciences Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. At the Institute for Educational Planning and Extension of the University of Education Winneba, he serves as a tutor. Martin Owusu holds a Master of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies.