Competency Profiles as Basis for Course Design of the MA in Transformational Urban
Course: TUL555 TUL555 Educational Centre Development
CompID Competency Skill Knowledge Value Character

Course Objectives: The theory, strategies and processes for the development of preschool, elementary, adult literacy and technical

schools in the slums as integral to urban poor churchplanting processes. Candidates are able to understand

TUL555 Educational Centre milestones in the development of slum schools,and their relationship to church growth, and critically evaluate the

Development development of slum schools, issues of curriculum development, long-term management and financial viability.

Processes of

resourcing, setting up and managing a computer centre in the slums as source of income, development of slum

people and context of communication of the gospel.
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ability to propose a plan for design and initiate a new Understands the benefits

either a vocational training preschool, elementary or or early childhood

program or an early childhood vocational educational centre that education and has the

training program. Integrate contibutes to the growth of an ability to explain those

urban poor church benefits to the parents of

children in a slum

community.
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Understands the milestones in Understands the milestones in

development of an early development of an early

childhood services delivery childhood services delivery
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Aware of processes involved in Can create the core of a Aware of processes involved in Values education as a

setting up an educational business plan doe a slum school setting up an educational means to escape poverty

institution in the slums institution in the slums
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Understands the benefits or Understands the benefits or early

early childhood education and childhood education and has the

has the ability to explain those ability to explain those benefits to

benefits to the parents of the parents of children in a slum

children in a slum community. community.
Summary for Course = TUL555 (4 competencies)

Course Objectives: Candidates will be able to expand nine principles of Kingdom Economics into a design of a Credit Cooperative process

for a church. This will include an understanding of theories of causes of poverty and evaluaton of how the poor

TUL560 Economics for Urban Poor escape poverty including theories by de Soto, Milton Santos, John Kenneth Galbraith. Students will develop

Workers processes for registration of churches, quality bookkeeping, board strategy, funding and marketing plan, business

plan, and eldership or deacons development processes for their ministries. Candidates are able to understand the

benefits of small business development and have the ability to explain those benefits to poor slum dwellers.
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Have developed principles and Have identified processes of are able as a group to debate the Hardworking (2 Tim 2:4)

experience in Kingdom economics cooperative economics in their relationships of nine major

communities and have concluded economic principles in Genesis,

what steps the church can take Jubilee, the Gospel, Acts and the

to utilise these better Epistles
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Skilful in formation of small Can generate and utilise a Understand Kingdom Eoncomic Accountability with Accountability with finances

economic enterprises among budget,and set up a bookkeeping principles, particularly cooperative

believers and the community system with yearly accounts for ecoomic principles

one tye of cooperative group

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