Abstract

NARANJO HIGUERA, Sonia Alejandra  and  MONCADA GUZMAN, Ciro Javier. Contributions of Religious Education in School to Cultivating Human Spirituality. educ.educ. [online]. 2019, vol.22, n.1, pp.113-119. ISSN 0123-1294.  https://doi.org/10.5294/edu.2019.22.1.6.

This article derives from an interinstitutional research project built, which took a qualitative approach and was conducted in eight major cities of Colombia using narrative methods. It aimed to inquire into the nature and pedagogical practices of Religious Education teachers, which is a fundamental and mandatory class under the General Education Act. Accounts of participating teachers showed different outlooks as to the identity and praxis of Religious Education in School (RES) but, within them, researchers’ interest focused on an emerging perspective that regards this subject as a search for the cultivation of human spirituality. Therefore, this paper intends to present some contributions that RES can make to cultivate human spirituality because, when built from this perspective, it favors religious pluralism -preventing any exclusion arising from the dynamics of majority religious systems- and enriches comprehensive education by providing educational opportunities for the search, construction and cultivation of the meaning of human life.

Keywords : Religious education; spiritual intelligence; religion; spirituality; religion studies.

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