Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 91 No. 1, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.91.1.4
Integral Education: Theological‑Pedagogical Emphases in the Light of Church Teaching
Odilon-Gbènoukpo Singbo
orcid.org/0000-0002-2154-8935
; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Snježana Mališa
orcid.org/0000-0003-2086-4159
; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
In this article the authors are pursuing the origins of the syntagma »integral education « and its reception in the Catholic teaching on education. Starting from Christian anthropology, the authors are explaining various implications of such an approach to the educational process and possible ways of its realisation in the contemporary context. The article is divided into three parts. The first part, entitled »At the Sources of the Concept: An Historical‑Analytic Overview«, deals with and analyses the historical origin of the concept of integral education and the understanding of this concept in ecclesiastical documents and writings of national and international authors, especially in so‑called integral humanism of Jacques Maritain. The second part, entitled »Se- lected Theological‑Pedagogical Emphases on Integral Education« draws attention to Christian anthropology as the basis and source of correct formation of contents of integral education, while taking into account contemporary value‑oriented circumstances that demand new relational dynamics in the educational process. The third part of the article, entitled »Pedagogy of the Heart as a Way of Integral Education«, deals with the relation between cognitive and affective dimension of the person and with the need to comprehend the person’s uniqueness and oneness, while pointing out the main contours of Jesus’s pedagogy and pedagogy of the Church. Such pedagogy is in its core personalistic. The article is clearly pointing out the influence of Jacques Maritain on the explicit formation of the ecclesiastical approach to education. The emphasis of the article is on bringing up to date the anthropological‑theological‑pedagogical approach to integral education, on Christian education as a model of integral education, and on its possible applications. In the conclusion of the article, the authors are pointing out the need to return back to the sources of Catholic integral approach to education. That approach demands enthusiastic openness of the heart of educator and pupils through faith in the supreme teacher, Jesus Christ.
Keywords
integral education; educational enthusiasm; pope Pius XI; Jacques Maritain; Gravissimum educationis; Divini illius magistri; Christian anthropology; ecclesiastical educational teaching; pedagogy of the heart.
Hrčak ID:
260613
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Publication date:
7.2.2021.
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