THE ORIGIN AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
THE ORIGIN AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The article approaches the issue of the origin of religious education principles, as value foundation of the evolution of general and specific normativiy. This normativity directs the educational process, focusing on the basic ideas of Christian pedagogy, which have become landmarks of life and Christian education. The fundamental ideas belong to the thinking of Church Fathers, Christian philosophers and also to representatives of major systems pedagogical thinking, who had concerns also in christian education filed, of religious education. Some of them have developed theoretical and methodological systems based on principles, values and paradigms of religious education. This relates to current Romanian education reform principles, are detailed in educational situations that facilitate the formation of Christian moral profile of children and young people and are contextualised best educational practices of religious education. The legitimacy and the opportunity of analyzing the origin of religious education focuses on two perspectives: a) determination and description of axiologicall core of religious education principles crystallized in the history of Christian pedagogy and under the influence of modern and postmodern education developments; b) identification and use of relevant criteria to the development of religious education categories of principles, to guide and regulate the current religious education process .

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