Marconi Andrew A. Segovia A.B.

POL SCI - 3

Rationale

This is a study and research about the very concept of Religious Education policies and

implications of the University of San Jose – Recoletos. This study is aims to assess the

effects of Religious Education amongst and on Josenian students in relation to their

personal daily lives and Josenian student life. This study is conducted in consideration

of the USJR educational policy, in terms of religious education, of its inclusion of

Religious Education as part of the curriculum of Josenian students, a terminology used

for students enrolled in the said university, admitted to the institution. This research

study contains graphs and figures of the enrolled; passed and failed students of the

Religious Education courses known as ReEd 1, ReEd 2, ReEd 3, and ReEd 4. Along

with their specific interpretations of the said information about the actual data gathered.

Using these data the researchers shall be illustrating and clarifying the strong points of

the Religious Education course and its necessity or just mere requirement for

graduation. Moreover, the study shall be a successful tool in providing other academic

institutions such as academies, colleges, and universities of religious influence and

religious administration of the student’s paradigm in its pursuit of spiritual morality and

holistic excellence of Gospel-oriented and Christ-centered morality. Most religious

educators, conservative religious parents, lay and religious community leaders and

members want their schools or educational institutions to be spiritually and morally

inclined, so Religious Education improvement or abolishment is a major function of

religious educational administration. It is necessarily an ongoing educational course

because of the historical and catechistic success of the catholic missions done by

catholic missionaries are no longer a guarantee of future success.

Religious Education typically caters and lectures about their religion’s specified

sacraments, holistic purity, and spiritual morality; all pertaining to the Divine. But

religious educating, although important and reflective of the Augustinian spirit of

“Caritas et Scientia", is by itself not enough. The very basic problem is how to keep

such lessons of Religious Education such as spiritual morality from being obsolete and

downgraded to just a graduation requirement ; it must be etched inside the very hearts

and minds of the students once they graduate from the University of San Jose –

Recoletos. The university must move in a direction that will spiritually benefit the

students and the community in a very most holistic sense. Improvement for religious

education has in need for various elements but sum up to two: the choice of needed

vision and mission (direction and aims), tactics and strategies for achieving them. The

choice of directions can be achieved in a number of ways, inclusion and addition of

consideration of millennial personal experiences incorporated with philosophical

attitudes and spiritual Christian morality, exploring the millennial community and social

media society in pursuit of religious educational spiritual goals and Gospel- oriented

objectives. The course of action finally chosen will very much depend on its spiritual

significance and Christian recollect relevance in terms of the envisioned end.

Furthermore, it should also be carried by the approval or feasibility as determined by

examination of variables and student welfare with analysis of the various strategies and

tactics used. Nowadays, religious educators find themselves in a trap between the

lecture of religious education (Christian morality) and actual application of the course

outline (a graduated Josenian); cross a rapidly shifting society of with unstable morals.

These educators are increasingly needed, in some areas of our society within a certain
extent, and challenged with the decreasing morality and the declining number of the

faithful of the old tradition which unfortunately are the youth of today also known as

“millennial”. With these unlimited problems, intermingle with theoretical and moral

issues consequences are yet to be unraveled. In addition, religious educators must help

students, especially the Josenians( students of University of San Jose – Recoletos) and

communities( the Josenian community both Carbon and Basak campuses) achieve the

most sincere form of morality and decency within the hearts and minds of Josenians

which are troubled in times of fragmented , changing, and social pretentious of techno

savvy social media era. In the dawn of the liberal era of the youth, religious education

majoring in morality specified in Christian morality can no longer cope up with the norms

of the youth but are then merely treated as a subject that is a prerequisite for

graduation; regardless of honors. This is exactly the doctrinal problem that religious

education unknowingly faces. No longer will traditional virtues are placed within the

altar of knowledge by students, but corrupt perceptions of decency and morality are

celebrated by the young. This study enforces the notion of values and virtues that it be

reminded and retaught by religious educators as a means of deeper guidance and

influence; thus becoming the very heart and soul of the students. This can be possible

or attained by applying new teaching techniques and positive teaching management,

personal and case to case examination wherein knowledge attained by lecture are

practically applied, these will enable the religious academe a more progressive

environment and a long lasting lesson impact on the students of the University of San

Jose – Recoletos on religious education concerning proper morals, decencies, and

Christian ethics. This research furthers the concepts of religion, morality, teachers
becoming doers, spirituality, Christian leadership, Christian spiritual attitudes, and most

of all the maintenance of the purity of the heart and soul of both student and graduate of

University of San Jose – Recoletos amidst the very Evil that it seeks to extinguish; the

Evil of immorality. This research examines the cultural impact it has on the crusade of

each religious education educator and their hopes of such Christ-like fruition manifested

in both the students and graduates of University of San Jose – Recoletos. Hence, this

research was accordingly studied and ethically conducted.