RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Cover Image

VERSKA NASTAVA U SISTEMU OBRAZOVANJA
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Author(s): Milica Nikolić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Cultural history, Theology and Religion
Published by: Centar za empirijska istraživanja religije (CEIR)
Keywords: catechism/religious education; evolution; creationism;

Summary/Abstract: The collapse of the socialist social system in the former Yugoslavia, the processesof democratization, atheism withdrawal, and modulating to the tendencies of the moderncivil societies has led to the revival of the question regarding educational system´s approach to religious education in schools. Religious education in Serbia has been introduced not long after the democratically induced changes of the year 2000. What was intended to be achieved through this reform of the educational system is to induce balanceand gain the sense of the suitable amount of presence of the religious content. The reformsbegan by introducing catechism and civic education to the educational system. Catechism and civic education had been accepted in Serbia as facultative subjects in schoolsin 2001, only to gain the status of optional subjects one year later, which entails oblig

  • Issue Year: 16/2018
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 323-342
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian