Review article
ANIMATION OF CHURCH VOCATIONS IN RELIGIOUS TEACHING TEXTBOOKS FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Juraj Batelja
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This article is the analysis of talking about the vocation of
priesthood in the curricula and textbooks for religious teaching
in primary and secondary schools. The teaching units and
lessons are evaluated as from theological-pastoral aspect so too
from pedagogical-psychological aspect. The starting point of this
analysis is the documents of Church teaching and Pope’s messages
sent on the occasion of the World’s Day of Vocations. The first part
is about the idea of catechesis in general, trying to point out that
school religious-teaching has always been and has to remain the
teaching in faith, listening to the reverberation of the words of the
One who makes Himself heard.
In the second part the author investigates what kind and how
strong the impact is that the contents and methods by which the
topic is treated exert on the pupils. He also analyses the role of
the catechist. He sees it as a part of mission of the Church; he
recognizes the need of correlation and rootedness of school religious
teaching in relation to the One who is calling, to the Revelation and
to the experience of the Church in which the history of salvation
is continuing. When reviewing the direct or indirect catechesis of
vocation the author notices the insufficiency of actualisation of
religious teaching texts in terms of a direct question to the pupils
in which way they respond to God’s calling and which is the reason
of crisis of vocations in today’s world.
In the end he concludes that a mosaic and integral approach
to the treatment of this topic is exceptionally delicate for the one
who teaches, as assisted by a textbook so too by his/her own
evidence of faith.
Keywords
vocation; call; mission; catechesis; school religiousteaching; Church; correlation; shepherds; faith; religious-teaching textbook; curriculum of school religious-teaching; method
Hrčak ID:
29613
URI
Publication date:
15.9.2008.
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