Accompaniment suggests a journey. Every journey presupposes a destination, an end, a goal, a telos. What is the end of the accompaniment of youth? The theme of the Synod for Youth 2018 aims at accompanying
the young on their existential journey to maturity so that, through a process of discernment, they discover their plan for life and realize it with joy, opening up to the encounter with God and with human beings, and actively participating in the edification of the Church and of society (Vatican, 6/10/2016).
The theme suggests maturity of youth as the end of the process of accompaniment and discernment. What is maturity? The proposed chapter will offer the benchmarks of maturity from a psycho-spiritual perspective, in an attempt at defining the goal of the accompaniment process.
Psychologists and social scientists […]
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Empirical Research: A Study Guide
From Tangaza University College – Update
Tangaza Contributes to Research in Kenya
Our DVC Designate, Rev. Prof. Sahaya G. Selvam, is a role model in research and publication. His latest publication is in fact on research (Empirical Research: A Study Guide, Paulines Africa, 2017). It is a book that is written precisely with the African students in mind. It provides a study guide for university students at every level.
The book insists that research should go beyond the mere fulfilment of an academic requirement in terms of producing a thesis or a dissertation. It focuses on a scientific approach that insists on an internal consistency.
How do we know something is scientific? This is the author’s criterion: what gets published in international peer-reviewed journals, particularly those that are published by learned associations […]
Policy and Challenges of Contextualization for School-based Counselling in Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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Authors
Dr. Chika Eze, SHCJ. Lecturer, Institute of Youth Studies, Tangaza University College. The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, P. O. Box 15055, 00509 Nairobi-Kenya. Email: chikashcj@gmail.com
Rev. Dr. Sahaya G. Selvam, sdb. Associate Professor, Graduate Programmes’ Coordinator, Institute of Youth Studies –Tangaza University College. The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, P .O. Box 15055, 00509 Nairobi. Email: selvamsdb@gmail.com
Josephine Adibo, RSCJ. University Counsellor. The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, P. O. Box 62157-00200 Nairobi- Kenya. Email: josadibo@gmail.com
Mandu Selepe. University Counsellor. University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus. Private Bag X1106, Sovenga 0727, South Africa. Email: dmselepe@yahoo.com
Sewela Monicca Ramaboea. Clinical Psychologist, P. O. Box 3239, Polokwane, 0700. South Africa. Email: moniccar@webmail.co.za
Abstract
Globally, learners in schools are exposed to psychological stressors that often warrant provision of counselling services as preemptive and curative measures to maintain their mental health. Consequently, schools at all levels are required to provide […]
Empirical Research: A Study Guide
Why another book on research methods? There are a few books that are over cited by students in East Africa. These books tend to be absolutised by teachers and examiners. What is important in research is the scientific approach. Not everything is written on rock. Moreover, research goes beyond the mere fulfilment of an academic requirement in terms of producing a thesis or a dissertation. This book focuses on a scientific approach that insists on an internal consistency. The book also proposes that research should go beyond a thesis.
When I started teaching research methods, I realised that students in East Africa […]
Educating Young People in Admonishing Sinners as a Spiritual Work of Mercy
What does “admonition of sinners” – a spiritual work of mercy – mean? What criteria could we use in our judgement of sin, and how do we admonish the sinner using common criteria? This chapter attempts to answer these questions. In discussing these issues, within the scope of this book, the focus in this chapter will be the education of youth to the admonition of sinners as a spiritual work of mercy. There are three initial sections: the first of which attempts at a definition of sin drawing insight from Ignatian spirituality. Based on this definition, the following section explores the meaning of admonition of sinners. This second section relies much on the Biblical meaning of the spiritual act of mercy. In the third section, we go on to discuss the […]