Promoting the Affective Domain within Global Pandemic: The Challenge of Christian Education

Abstract

The Christian faith was not merely a matter of knowledge (cognitive domain) alone, but also about feelings and attitudes (affective domain), and deed or practice (psychomotor aspects). All domains in the viewpoint of the Christian faith influenced each other so that all need to get the same judgment. The problem was they were no longer having public meeting, especially in Christian education classes. In the other hand, it was hard to touch affective domain without face-to-face learning. This study investigated the effect of cooperative learning on affective domain in Christian education during the global pandemic of Covid-19. This study was conducted among forty Christian students, and adopted quasi-experimental design with two groups, the experimental group and control group. Prior to the t analysis, the pre-requisite test for normality had been conducted. Then, data were analyzed by using paired sample T-Test. The result of analysis revealed that affective domain in Christian education can be promoted by cooperative learning. Paired sample t-test showed that the value of significance (2- tailed) was less than 0.05, indicated that there was a significant difference of mean between pre-test and post-test results. In this regard, cooperative learning can be a solution to increase affective domain in Christian education during pandemic. Further studies are suggested to be conducted with larger samples.