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    Understanding Third Culture Kids' Perception of the Teenage Sunday School Classes in two Urban African Churches.
    (2014-05-08) Williams, Grace Kogi
    The purpose of this grounded theory study is to understand and explain the experiences of Third Culture Kids in Sunday school in two urban African Churches and identify ways of helping them adjust to a different culture. Data collected was by means of interviews and e-mails for the sake of TCKs that live far away. The research findings revealed some significant results: • TCKs are kids who have no choice on the movements they have made from location to location. • TCKs have had diverse cultural adjustment issues to cope with in the course of moving from place to place. Their experiences though diverse yet valuable. • TCKs desire friendship from Sunday School teachers in order to receive support as they seek to adjust to various cultural situations they find themselves in. • TCKs react to changes according to how they perceive them, but need to be understood in the sense that if they display any negative reactions to situations, it is not deliberate. For a long time, the attitudes of TCKs in Sunday School classes has been a concern to the church especially in relation to the Western Missionary TCKs, however this study has opened a small window into some of the reasons for the attitudes of TCKs in Sunday School classes. I hope that the church will have solutions for the issue at hand and do better in handling the issues for the benefit of TCKs and the church.
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    The influence of sunday school on the spiritual development of children : Karinde Free Methodist Church
    (2014-04-17) Mattah, Nereah Adala
    The purpose of this research was to find out the extent to which the Free Methodist Church Sunday school has had an impact on the spiritual development of children of ages 6-14. The main areas of inquiry, which were foundational to this study, are the parents of the children aged between 6-14 and the Sunday school curriculum used in the Karinde Free Methodist Church. The instruments, which were formulated and used, included questionnaires for parents and teachers. The questionnaires consisted of closed-ended and open-ended questions. There were also interview questions for the children. The information gathered was analyzed and summarized by use of various tables and graphs where necessary. The findings of the study revealed the following about the Karinde Free Methodist Church Sunday school. The influence of the Sunday school in the learners' relationship with God was weak. Its influence on the children's relationship with other people was strong. It had very weak influence on the learners' relationship with nature (their environment). The regularity with whichlearners practiced lessons learnt about God was weak. Practice of lessons learnt about relating with other people was strong while practice of lessons learnt about nature was very weak. The writer recommends that the church considers training the Sunday school teachers thereby equipping them for the noble ministry to children and that the children be divided up in the Sunday school according to age groups to enable teachers minister adequately to them bearing in mind the unique characteristics of particular age groups. The church could draw a regular budget to equip the Sunday school with modem learning facilities. Parents ought to be more involved in the spiritual nurture of their children by going through the lessons learnt in Sunday school with them and helping them to apply the same in their lives.
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    An exploration of attitudes of pre-adolescent boys towards sunday school
    (2014-04-14) Ouko, Clement
    This thesis is a grounded theory study investigating the attitudes of preadolescent boys towards the traditional Sunday school. The first chapter focuses on the background and significance of the study. The second chapter contains a brief interaction with literature related to the topic of concern. The focus in this chapter is on the definition of the term attitudes and the link between attitudes and behaviour. The third chapter justifies the research model and deals exhaustively with the methods and procedures that I used to investigate the attitudes of boys to the traditional Sunday school. Chapter four summarizes the findings of the field interviews, namely the strong polarity of the boys' attitudes and the surprising ambivalence towards their teachers. These findings are in turn related to the main aspects of attitudes using relevant literature on the subject. This chapter concludes with a proposed theoretical model to account for the boys' attitudes. Chapter five, the concluding chapter, contains pertinent recommendations arising out of the findings of the research and some suggestions for further research.