| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 宗教研究所 === 101 === Glory Foundation was founded in 1997 as the first social welfare organization emerging in the Local Church system, devoted mainly to life education-related works. For the Local Church system which conventionally has avoided involving in social affairs, the appearance of Glory Foundation carries a special meaning. Based on Christians’ spirit of glorifying God and benefitting people, Glory Foundation in compliance with the educational authorities’ policy on life education, compiles teaching materials, trains voluntary workers, and promotes life education in governmental institutions, organizations, schools, communities etc., responding to the need of life education for the general public.
This thesis studies the practices of Glory Foundation for more than ten years in the field of life education. Chapter One elaborates the Department of Education’s idea on life education and core abilities intended to be built up in teenagers through the curriculum. Next the founding of Glory Foundation, the Local Church system’s perspective, and the re-organizing of the Foundation are described. A comparison is made regarding the ideas on life education between the Department of Education and Glory Foundation.
In Chapter Two, we examine how Glory Foundation as a Christian organization for life education, infuses the Local Church’s theology into the teaching materials. From the fact that most Foundation’s voluntary workers are from the Local Church system, Chapter Three describe the volunteers training programming and relation between voluntary workers and the Foundation. Moreover, other topics such as the structure of the teaching plans, difficulties encountered in class, how college students joining the volunteers group, and the differences in life education practices between Glory Foundation and Champions Education Association, R.O.C. are stated. Lastly, the Glory Foundation Youth Project is also addressed.
In Closing Remarks, the author will discuss the correlation between Glory Foundation and the intimate partner－the Local Church system, and hence the associated assistance and limitation for the Foundation.
The author would like to applaud for Glory Foundation’s contribution to the society. The Local Church system in which the Foundation is rooted contains more abundant human and financial resources among Christian groups. It is the author’s sincere wish that Glory Foundation being on such a concrete base could keep promoting all kinds of life education works, that more healthy environments for holistic education can be constructed as a feedback to the society.
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