Aims

The course aims to enable students to assess the real needs, desires and refusals of young Western people. By the end, the students should have acquired tools for analysis and intervention, allowing them to encounter and understand young people and to give them support in their reflections on life and faith.

Main themes

The course focuses on young Western people between the ages of 6 and 18. Without neglecting the previous stages of their lives, the course aims to determine the typical features of both their human and their religious development. It examines the function and impact of the different environments of faith-education, as well as their possible links. On this basis, the course asks how to promote an integrated education that takes account of the diversity of the situations and the requirements of religious education adapted to young people nowadays.