EDUCATING CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN MEANING AND SPIRITUALITY

Abstract

The school function as an educational institution being subject to the control of the relevant educational authorities, and its assumptions and development depend to a large degree on the educational policy and context. Today, in globalised, digital, postmodern and pandemic society, the importance and urgency of the school role have never been greater. Among other school subjects, Religious Education in any school type has significant educational purposes: to help pupils appreciate the importance of the spiritual quest and meaning, to support full growth of them as human beings and to accompany pupils in the process of finding their own sociocultural conditioning and reach a position of being able to find a personal framework of meaning. That’s why Religious Education has both credentials and precedents for undertaking the contemporary human being quest for meaning. But at the same time, some external and internal factors have to be taken into consideration for the discourse of Religious Education which has moved away from realistic expertise into formal presentation losing its educational credibility.