New Digital Technologies: A Kairos for Catholic Education in Rwanda

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Religious and Theological Information Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10477845.2017.1354594

E. Mukama

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ABSTRACT While the Catholic Church in Rwanda endeavors to revitalize Catholic Education, the Government of Rwanda is trying to leverage the use of digital technologies to raise access, improve the quality, and strengthen the relevance of education and training to the labor market. The purpose of this article is therefore to explore and assess the value and potentially constructive educational benefits offered by digital technologies in Catholic schools. The Catholic Church is one of the key educational development partners of the Government of Rwanda. Approximately 41% of students attend Catholic schools in Rwanda. The article scrutinizes some ethical concerns associated with the emergence of digital technologies in schools. Then it critically analyzes the position of the Catholic Church vis-à-vis digital technologies and sheds some light on their ethical and responsible use in Catholic schools. Consequently, the article suggests some actions that may be undertaken by the Catholic Church in order to assist the youth to make an informed choice among a diverse range of options offered by digital technologies in a way that aligns with the Catholic social teaching and tradition.

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新数字技术:卢旺达天主教教育的凯罗斯

摘要在卢旺达天主教会努力振兴天主教教育的同时，卢旺达政府正试图利用数字技术来提高教育和培训的普及率，提高质量，并加强教育和培训与劳动力市场的相关性。因此，本文的目的是探索和评估数字技术在天主教学校提供的价值和潜在的建设性教育效益。天主教会是卢旺达政府的主要教育发展伙伴之一。大约41%的学生就读于卢旺达的天主教学校。这篇文章仔细研究了与学校数字技术出现相关的一些伦理问题。然后，它批判性地分析了天主教会对数字技术的立场，并阐明了它们在天主教学校中的道德和负责任的使用。因此，文章提出了天主教会可能采取的一些行动，以帮助年轻人在数字技术提供的各种选择中做出明智的选择，从而符合天主教的社会教学和传统。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Religious & Theological Information is an essential resource for bibliographers, librarians, and scholars interested in the literature of religion and theology. Both international and pluralistic in scope, this peer-reviewed journal encourages the publication of research and scholarship in the field of library and information studies as it relates to religious studies and related fields, including philosophy, ethnic studies, anthropology, sociology, and historical approaches to religion. By "information" we refer to both print and electronic, and both published and unpublished information.