The thesis deals with the religious dimension of life at Czech secularized school. In its theoretical part, using the theoretical sources, it tries to give some information about different conceptions of religion, about the psychology and sociology´s point of view, about the personality of the teacher and school culture as well and shortly about the development of our school system in the history of the Czech Republic. In its practical part it tries to answer the question about the existence of the religious dimension of life at particular Czech school with the research and its analysis.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T21:14:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 16 / Nenhuma / Atento à problemática do ensino religioso, minha reflexão se insere num percurso histórico, do qual participo ativamente desde a década de 1960. Associando-me a outros profissionais do ensino, em âmbito estadual e nacional, refleti com eles sobre as mudanças contextuais, procurando ressignificar a compreensão do ensino religioso e reconfigurar a sua prática, dentro da realidade cambiante. Tais reflexões foram elaboradas em textos, parcialmente publicados, e levadas à prática em projetos de formação de professores e em subsídios para aulas de educação religiosa. Com esta atividade, também entrei em contato com autoridades de ensino, no sentido de promover programas de atualização dos professores na disciplina aqui em questão. Agora, no trabalho de tese, insiro-me neste processo, o qual constitui, por assim dizer, o chão de minhas considerações, que desenvolvo em três partes:1) um olhar histórico sobre a evolução do ensino religioso, com destaque às mudanças ocorridas, visando a uma melhor compreensão do mesmo, / Having in mind the problem with the religious teaching, my reflection is inserted in a historical course of which I have been participating actively since the 1960’s. By associating myself with other professionals of the teaching, in both state and national field of action, I reflected with them about the contextual changes, trying to give a new meaning to the understanding of the religious teaching and to reshape its practice within the changeable reality. Such reflections were elaborated in texts, partially published, and taken into practice in projects of formation of teachers and in subsidies for classes of religious education. With this activity, I also got in touch with teaching authorities, in the sense of promoting programs of the updating of the teachers in the subject of this matter. Now, in the work of thesis, I insert myself in this process, which constitutes, so to say, the ground of my considerations that I develop in three parts:1) a historical look on the evolution of the religious teaching, p

Student Number: 9408497V Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree for Masters of Arts. / In this research report an analysis of the message of pre-marital sexual abstinence as a strategy for HIV prevention and its implications for development was carried out. The Christian Action Fellowship, a student Christian organization at the University of the Witwatersrand provided a case for the research study. The alternative development paradigm informed my discussion of the message of pre-marital sexual abstinence in relation to development. In particular, it is its emphasis on participatory development and on the fact that development focus should be given to particular localities that I drew from the paradigm. However, the paradigm falls short of capturing the religious dynamics pertaining to local realities. Thus the results of the research study I carried out are meant to contribute to the development of the paradigm by factoring in the religious dimension of local reality in discourse of development. In this study, the religious dimension of local reality was captured in my focus on the message of pre-marital sexual abstinence as advanced within the evangelical faith based movement in South Africa. Furthermore, this research study is meant to contribute to discourse of development by stimulating intellectual reflection on the message of pre-marital sexual abstinence as a strategy of prevention and its implications for development in South Africa. The study demonstrated involvement by the evangelical movement in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The study further demonstrated the existence of particular methods employed to advance the message of pre-marital sexual abstinence as a prevention strategy against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. One such method is the strategy of identification. This method is employed to appeal to the targeted audience when ii presenting a case. Other methods employed are debate and argumentation as well as rhetoric. The deployment of these methods point to a religious construction of an identity that upholds pre-marital sexual abstinence as a lifestyle and a better HIV preventive option to other strategies of prevention. This research study is recommending further work in the areas where HIV prevention interventions and development interventions intersect within the local context (in all its dimensions) of identity construction.

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