Aims

By the end of this course, the student should be able to undertake critical reflection into the foundations, conditions of possibility, difficulties and opportunities for guiding young people in discovering the Christian faith, as well as to outline a reflection on faith experience.

Main themes

To meet these objectives, the course is broken down as follows:
- diverse description of the specific situation of Western youth today;
- examination of the different environments where the dawning and development of faith happens within the context of their human development;
- reflection on an integrated formation taking into account the diversity of the situations and the requirements of an adapted religious pedagogy.

Content and teaching methods

The course examines, from the point of view of the child and the teenager, the 4 components of the education in the faith: the religious education is, by nature, first proclamation, initiation, teaching and education. At matter of the religious education conceived like education with the faith and in the faith, the course locates the stakes and the proposals by holding account of the complex phenomenon of religious pluralism present in the current society.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

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