ORTHODOX EDUCATION AT CHURCH AND SCHOOL: TRAINING IN VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
ORTHODOX EDUCATION AT CHURCH AND SCHOOL: TRAINING IN VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Author(s): Velina Toneva
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Education, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Theology and Religion, School education, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: Eastern Orthodox Christian Church; School; Education; Values; Human Rights;
Summary/Abstract: Research on contemporary innovative pedagogical practices of Bulgarian parochial education relies on insufficient and inconsistent data. Every church community has responsibility and system of teaching its parish Orthodox values with regard of human rights. Church instruction of children, youth, and adults is not a process of provoking anything incompatible with human rights and social peace. Nevertheless, critical circumstances in last several years demonstrated that such tendencies can appear, when both flocks and pastors are under enormous pressure. Still, in my dissertation we have chosen methodologically not to focus on any negative aspects of the problems of Bulgarian Orthodox schooling and catechetic instruction at churches during last several decades. Scholarly objectiveness also requires that we are aware of obstacles, and stay optimistic, adequate, reflexive, analytical, and systematic, oriented to the future and the better, according to values, and keep building good perspectives and relations. Human rights defence can only support our church subculture within traditional local culture.

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