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Teaching Religion in Czech schools - a pragmatic approach
Miškejová, Veronika ; Ostdiek, Gerald Robert (advisor) ; Hogenová, Anna (referee)
World religions should be taught at the secondary level of education. In this, a pragmatic approach is superior to the traditional approach, because it shows not just the history of this topic, but it also lets students experience the everyday life of those who believe. It is not in any way a method to convert anybody to this or that faith or tradition. It is a pedagogic method for critical thinking and both making and challenging interpretations of the facts before each student. In my thesis I showed my own method and I made my own version of a better textbook that utilizes the basic points of pragmatic pedagogy. I studied the works of John Dewey, John Gatto, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. And I propose a method that takes no more than 4 lessons, if needed, which is the most time teachers can give to such topic. I looked at the educational programs of the Czech Republic and found that world religions are a very small portion of the subject Education in citizenship. Since John Dewey was an atheist, it is not common for people to think of religion as a topic to teach with his methodology. Most of the social sciences are still taught as history lessons and not as the fun and interesting lessons they can be. I think it is not just the natural sciences that should have their laboratories at...
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Blame, Repentance, Responsibility
Moudrá, Marie ; Keřkovský, Pavel (advisor) ; Halama, Jindřich (referee)
Blame, Repentance, Responsibility This thesis deals with the issue of blame, repentance and responsibility in terms of accountability for the current state of the world. After being characterized by fundamental concepts such as freedom of human action, ethics, morality, conscience, responsibility, blame and repentance, the thesis focused on the responsibility for the current state of the world. The paper outlines the nature of the current crisis of society from the perspective of two major theologians Hans Küng and Daniel L. Migliore. Next, the thesis deals with the necessity of a common ethical consensus and the project World ethos, which was created within the Parliament of World Religions. Much of the paper is devoted to the principles of this project and the four commandments, which are actually concretization of the "golden rule" and which can be found in most religions and ethical traditions of the world. In the next part this paper presents several areas of daily life, which the world's ethos touches, describes the current situation and needed changes. At the end it focuses on the activities of largest international organization that merits the promotion of the fundamental ethos in international practice - the United Nations, and some of the problems which are currently engaged in the UN....
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