Preliminary communication
A Point of View Regarding Religious Education. A Call for Cooperative Denominational Religious Education
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Erzieher in Deutschland e.V. AEED
; Comenius Institut, Münster, Deutschland
Abstract
The new situation in the school system presents new challenges for religious education. Teaching plans are liberalized, some schools receive more autonomy, and in Germany the duration of high school education has been diminished. Consequently, the "weaker subjects", such as music and sports education, and religion and ethics, are relegated to the background. However, the disappearance of many traditions in society and the complexity of today's world call for guidance and ask questions about the meaning of life. School religious education can and must help students in finding themselves and offer an interpretation of the world by setting a firm foundation for helping students to cope in life. Religious education must have a permanent place in all years of education and should not be neglected for practical reasons.
Keywords
religious education; the meaning of life; the complexity of the contemporary world; finding one self
Hrčak ID:
112074
URI
Publication date:
24.6.2012.
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