TRANSFORMING PHILOSOPHICAL FACTS AND FOUNDATIONS Professor Chiemela N Ikonne, PhD Education Director West-Central Africa Division Seventh-day Adventist Church 1

MISSION OF ADVENTIST CHURCH The mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is to make disciples of all people, communicating the everlasting gospel in the context of the three angels' messages of Revelation 14:6-12, leading them to accept Jesus as personal Savior and unite with His remnant Church, discipling them to serve Him as Lord and preparing them for His soon return. 2

MISSION OF ADVENTIST CHURCH Our Methodology We pursue this mission under the guidance and through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit through: 1. Preaching. Accepting Christ's commission (Matthew 28:18-20), we proclaim to all the world, in these last days, the everlasting gospel of God's love, most fully revealed in His Son's life, ministry, atoning death, resurrection and high priestly ministry. Recognizing the Bible to be God's infallible revelation of His will, we present its full message, including the second advent of Christ and the continuing authority of His Ten Commandment law with its reminder of the Seventh-day Sabbath. 3

MISSION OF ADVENTIST CHURCH 2. Teaching. Acknowledging that development of mind and character is essential to God's redemptive plan, we promote the growth of a mature understanding of and relationship to God, His Word and the created universe. 3. Healing. Affirming the Biblical principles of the wellbeing of the whole person, we make the preservation of health and healing of the sick a priority and through our ministry to the poor and oppressed, cooperate with the Creator in His compassionate work of restoration. 4

MISSION OF ADVENTIST CHURCH 4. Discipling. Affirming the continued spiritual growth and development of all members, we nurture the newly converted, instruct them in righteous living, train them for effective witness and encourage their responsive obedience to God's will. This statement was voted by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee at the Annual Council Session in Silver Spring, Maryland on October 13,

WHY ADVENTIST EDUCATION? Pr 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Mt 28:19-20 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. “To Redeem and Restore” 6

OBJECTIVES By the end of this presentation, the informed, affirmed and transformed participant should be able to: 1. Convincingly explain why education is the key to the mental, physical, social, and moral/spiritual development that leads to societal development and advancement. 2. Develop a visible growing passion in practicing and promoting values that foster societal development and advancement. 7

VBE: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION (T/F) 1. Education is the key to mental, physical, social, and moral development which lead to societal development and advancement. 2. He who controls education controls the mind. 3. Knowledge is not wisdom; true education is! 4. Academic knowledge without moral discipline leads to societal decay and destruction. 5. Moral decline leads to academic decline. 8

VBE: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION (T/F) 6. Academic knowledge without moral discipline is the worst case of child abuse. 7. Educators are the primary agents of societal formation, change, and transformation—treating sickness or symptoms (TSS)? 8. Each lesson topic has some moral/ethical application. 9. Disciplined educators produce disciplined graduates. 10. Moral empowerment is the foundation of an effective youth empowerment programme (TSS). 9

VBE: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION (T/F) 11. Moral values don’t coexist with corruption and crime. 12. The strength of any community lies on the strength of its moral values. 10

VBE: APPLICATION 1. Curriculum specialists will determine appropriate general objectives for cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitude, behaviour, and character(ABC), and psychomotor (skills) learning that will guide the development of each subject or course taught in school. 2. For each lesson topic, curriculum specialists/teachers should state specific objectives for knowledge, attitudes, and skills learning and development. 11

VBE: APPLICATION 3. The teacher makes intentional, purposeful plan and effort to support pupils/students in learning and developing social and moral skills just as he does for the mental and physical. 4. The teacher teaches, measures, and evaluates according to stated objectives for each lesson topic. 12

VBE: EXPECTED EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES Graduates who passionately live by and promote values that foster societal development and advancement such as: Honesty and t rustworthiness Transparency and accountability Diligence and expertise Respectfulness and humility Commitment and dedication Justice and fairness Punctuality and promptness Patience and gentleness 13

VBE: EXPECTED EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES Graduates who passionately live by and promote values that foster societal development and advancement such as: Concern, care, and selfless service Courtesy and politeness Sensitiveness and activeness Patriotism and loyalty Kindness and forgiveness Tolerance and acceptance Peace and unity even in diversity Friendliness and courage 14

VBE: EXPECTED SOCIETAL OUTCOMES A society that is: Orderly Disciplined United Peaceful Steadily, strongly developing Growing, and Advancing 15

VBE: EXPECTED SOCIETAL OUTCOMES Key: 1.Teachers input VBE in school 2. School/students 3. Exponential input of values that foster development, growth and advancement by students into the society 4. Society 16