Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 66 No. 2-3, 1996.
Original scientific paper
Precis
Ana Gabrijela Šabić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author's approach to the problem in choosing of literary - artistically biblical and non biblical readings and selection of catechetic - communicational approach to these texts in religious education and catechesis is primary from literary scientific and psychological and a pedagogical standpoint but in interdisciplinary correlation to religiously pedagogical respectively theological and catechetic approach. Results of her scientific reflections are founded on studying and comparing of empirical and scientific-teoretical research and on her own research and findings of these in question. In the first part of this work- starting from very basic literary-theoretical principles - the author is pointing out and explaining four essential parts respectively four sorts of literary interests: thematic and genre interests, emotional contents and poetical expression. In the second part the author is stressing the essential difference between older (progressional psychological but periodically closed) and newer approach (interdisciplinary based and periodically opened) to the reader's literary development and especially to progress of his interest in this field. That literary interests are in the main, third, part more specifically detailed, theoretically determined and practically articulated, especially literary interest for biblical-artistic text and character of literary communication respectively to catechetic-methodically interpretation of literary text for children and preadolescent, grade l—Vlll elementary school (age 6—7 and 14-15). In the fourth part, as conclusion, among other things, the author is stressing problems as thesis/questions: - Isn't frequent lack of interest, in children and young adolescents, for biblical texts in fact a result of unsuitable choice of those texts and inadequate communicational approach to them when they meet them in catechesis and religious education? - Doesn't some media, insufficiently suitable (as some biblical comics and biblical pictured books, cartoons and movies), contribute to superficial communication with biblical text and loss of interest for profound and lively congregational meeting with a Bible? - Wouldn't it be more proper, in researching the literary and biblical interest, parallel with those they have catechized, to explore a permanent deepening and progress of these interests in catechists and animators of liturgical and others praying festivities?
Keywords
literary interests; catechesis; rel. education; Bible
Hrčak ID:
32472
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Publication date:
28.1.1997.
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