Tikybos mokytojų rengimo pasiekimai ir spragos

LTStraipsnyje nagrinėjamos tikybos mokytojų - jaunųjų specialistų sėkmės ir nesėkmės evangelizuojant Lietuvos jaunimą, aptariami tie gebėjimai, be kurių neįmanoma daryti įtakos šių dienų moksleiviams. Remiantis konkrečiais pavyzdžiais iš tikybos pamokų, straipsnyje analizuojamos religinio ugdymo nesėkmių priežastys, o išvadose bandoma pateikti strateginių pasiūlymų, kaip efektyviau rengti tikybos mokytojus bei tobulinti tikybos mokymo organizavimą. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Evangelizacija; Evengelizacija; Mokyklinis jaunimas; Mokytojų rengimas; Tikybos mokytojas; Ugdytojas; Educator; Educators; Evangelization; Formation educators; Senior schoolchildren; Teacher training; Teachers of Religion; Teachers oh religion.

ENTeachers of Religion are legal evangelizers of Lithuanian schools. They can reach the young people who do not come to Christian parishes or communities, so this means a great opportunity for the Church. To make their mission effective, however, the teachers need the following skills: ability to link faith points with the young people's problems and interests today, ability to debate and to debate defend Christian faith and morality, ability to use new methodology based on activity, ability to witness the faith and Christian lifestyle. Theological and psychological skills arc also essential, but the article deals primarily with the skills that appeared to be most striking for our research which is based on our observations of how the young graduates from Religious Education department of Vilnius Pedagogical University cope with their Religion classes at schools. We have concluded that our graduates arc creative enough while trying to associate faith with today's issues (this is seen from the topics of their lessons), but they do not always manage to argue effectively or to witness their faith and values, especially on the issues of marriage, premarital sex, euthanasia, etc. They appeared, however, to be rather strong in using modern methodology and active forms of teaching.The young teachers' lack of efficiency in polemics, discussions and witnessing is due to a number of drawbacks in their formation, namely: the status of Religious Education at school is not high enough to attract good students to choose this profession; Religious Education departments lack efficient professors of theology; spiritual guidance and the life of prayer is too weak to balance the wide influence of the worldly context in a secular university. We therefore conclude with several suggestions: we should make a clearer distinction between Religious Education at schools and parish catechesis, and the former should mainly aim at evangelizing the searchers and the non-believers who happen to come to our Religion class; the school syllabi and Religious Education textbooks should be revised to appeal to today's issues and to find our young people where they arc, not where we would like them to be; the training of religious educators in Lithuania should be improved and centralized; Religious Education at schools should firstly emphasize the positive points of our faith and bear witness of the bright aspects of Christian morality. [From the publication]

• Teologija / Theology
• Sociologija / Sociology
• Edukologija / Education