Date
5-1-2025
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Chair
Fred Smith
Keywords
Citizenship Christian Value Education, empowerment, prayer, curriculum, funding, training, and creativity
Disciplines
Leadership Studies | Missions and World Christianity
Recommended Citation
Hawes, Timothy, "Citizenship Christian Values Education Empowerment in Papua New Guinea Through Integration of Curriculum, Funding, and Professional Training" (2025). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 6897.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/6897
Abstract
Since 2018, the Papua New Guinea Education Department has opened the door for Christian Citizenship Value Education, but previously, no organization has successfully addressed this opportunity. The problem is that the CCVE program in PNG does not integrate curriculum, funding, and professional training. The purpose of this DMIN action research project is to develop and deploy the CCVE Empowerment plan. Through a survey given to CCVE teachers and multiple focus groups with six different CCVE leaders, the CCVE Empowerment plan was developed. The plan included a new organizational structure, the prayer model, the self-teaching student journals, sufficient funding, and applied creativity training. Five more schools conducting CCVE in Eastern Highlands Province at the start of 2025 were determined to be a successful outcome of efficacy. In 2024, the new organization Christian Citizenship was launched to integrate curriculum, funding, and professional training. The CCVE Empowerment plan has seen five more schools conducting CCVE in their provinces and CCVE empowerment spread out to five provinces from 2024 to 2025. Christian Citizenship Inc., with an ever-expanding group of passionate, actively engaged teachers, gives public school students an opportunity to become genuine citizens of heaven. The CCVE Empowerment plan has the potential to be applied to other countries internationally that are struggling to conduct CCVE.
