Educar para os valores, educar para a paz

: uma reflexão no âmbito da Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica

Abstract

Throughout this work I mainly focused on the evolution of education towards peace, within the framework of school and the education for values as something necessary to reflect about, since they are part of this vast universe - constituted by both family and school.
More than pretending to criticize or diminish the society we live in, I try to frame my field of action, the importance of the families’ role in education, the education for values and to establish some aims of action to produce more and better professional and personal results. I also address the school's EMRC discipline, as well as its specific contribution to the training of the human being, as well as its advantages in the educational system, which I believe can contribute to the insight of an education towards peace.
My work is divided into three great parts. In the first part, I present a reflection concerning the learning practice – where I approach some acknowledgments about the educational project of the school and the characterization of the class I taught. This educational project intends to reveal the way to operationalize the integral education of the student in his intellectual, physical, affective, relational and ethical capacities, in a life project at the service of others. In the second part, I focus, fundamentally, on Education in general, Education for Values and Education for Peace. Here, I develop a confrontation: in the first place, regarding the reality of education, that is, an education directing to the whole continuous process of training and teaching-learning, a part of the curriculum of educational establishments, whether they are public or private. Education is, indeed, fundamental as it is the foundation of a person’s formation. But education cannot be achieved without the integration of human values, and hence, secondly, there is a need for an education for values. True and full education needs to be based on an education concerning values and towards them. These values, when assimilated and lived, lead to the possibility of building a path of education for peace in school. It is an education that aims to build a person in its fullness, so that the individual can promote at each stage of his life a more human world, both in personal and social attitudes. One of the most important and necessary social attitudes for society is peace, which has always been (and will be) a deep human aspiration. In the third part, and as a consequence of this second chapter, there is the ambition to present a new "Reorganization of the Teaching Unit, a Universal Peace” of the 7th grade. This new reorganization of educational unit targets a new dynamic to an essential value of the human being. In this sense, I intend that the educational unit can be designated as “EDUCATE for PEACE” instead of the current “A Universal PEACE ". However, in this third part I tried to connect the several topics mentioned above, so that they did not seem isolated matters - on the contrary, the numerous agents are not (it is not possible to speak of one without resorting to others), it is only possible to reflect about education for peace if we do it in all its dimensions.
This Final Report intends to carry out a more critical and thoughtful self-assessment of my professional career and to generate a deeper reflection on my mission as an EMRC teacher, as a religious and as a Salesian priest, having in my hands the main challenge left by Don Bosco: the integral education of young people.

Date of Award	18 Jan 2018
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Juan Ambrosio (Supervisor)