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Practical Theology - Catechetics

Class at Protestant Theological Faculty |
RETA6033

Annotation

The course provides an introduction into the catechetic. Religious pedagogy is an interdisciplinary branch at the interface of theology and pedagogy. It deals with the perception, analysis and conception of the processes of religious teaching, learning and development in the context of social, cultural and religious relations. The reference sciences of religious pedagogy are pedagogy, psychology, sociology, theology and religion. The subject of research and teaching of religious pedagogy is all areas of religious teaching from religious socialization in the family, through teaching at school and catechesis of churches to religious development throughout life. The course also includes the theory of religious learning under changing social conditions, including historical perspective. Catechetic specifically is a field of religious pedagogy, which deals with the educational processes in the Church. Catechetic focuses on religious learning that is dependent on religion. The structure of the course:

1. basic concepts

2. religious teaching and its didactics

3. school and church as bearers of education - historical perspective

4. basic concepts of catechetics of the 20th and 21st centuries

5. didactic analysis

6. teacher

7. methods

8. groups and areas of catechesis from the biographical point of view