LSC:CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SENIOR TWO

Religious education for Uganda secondary schools

This textbook IS part of the reform of the school curriculum In Uganda Changes are in terms of what taught in how it is taught and how long it should take. This Will make you a unique when you leave school and whatever you do thereafter.

In the the main am to gong to school was to acquire knowledge, that IS, facts and ideas at) each subject. Today, the main aim is that you acquire both knowledge and understanding as you develop skills, values and competencies. These skills or competencies include; the ability to think for yourself, to communicate with others what you have learnt, to think creatively and critically to develop your own ideas other than just following those of teachers and textbooks.

This means you are guided/ equipped to find out information and ideas by yourself rather than just relying on what the teacher or textbook tells you. This book is aimed at promoting the spiritual and moral development of leaners. It will encourage you to search for meaning, value and purposes of morality and beliefs that are upheld in society It has a variety of activities for you to do, and information for you to read.

The activities present to you the opportunity to learn and find out things by yourself. You already have a lot of knowledge and ideas based on your own experiences in life and within your own community. While using this book, it is essential that you do all the activities. You will not learn properly unless you do these activities. In some way, this makes learning more of a challenge.

It is more difficult to think for yourself than to copy what the teacher tells you. But if you take up this challenge, you will become a and more successful person in life. You will also learn a lot from other people within the groups created in class and ideas shared together. You learn and achieve together.
A learning problem can easily be solved by discussing it with others.

Opportunities to learn are well shared and different tasks are given to every member of the group. Many of the activities in this book, therefore, involve discussion or other activities in groups or pairs. Your teacher will help to organize the groups and may arrange the classroom in such a way that you sit facing each other to discuss properly.