RE IN SPAIN

1. RE IN SPAIN APPRECE – UNION APPRECE ESPANA THANKS TO EDUCATION DELEGATION TARAZONA DIOCESE

2. SPANISH CONSTITUTION 1.The aconfessionality of the state (art. 16, 3). 2. The right of parents for their children to receive the religious and moral education that is in accord with their own convictions (art. 27, 3). 3. A basic aspect of integral education (art. 27, 1).

3. 1. The acconfesionality of the state: 1.     *Co-operative with religious freedom. * To guarantee the principle of religious freedom. * The principle of collaboration between the State and the Catholic Church. There is an “agreement on education and cultural matters” between the Spanish State and the Vatican. * In 1992 co-operation agreements were established with the Federation of Evangelic Religious Entities in Spain, the Federation of Israeli Communities in Spain and the Islamic Commission of Spain.

4. 2. Parents freedom: “The public powers guarantee the right of parents for their children to receive the religious and moral education that is in accord with their own convictions”.

5. 3. Integral Education: educating the whole person

6. Religious and moral education, integrated into the school curriculum, helps in the educational objective of forming responsible, aware, critically-thinking, free persons; it provides pupils with elements on which to base their own personal autonomy; it capacitates them to respect and relate to other systems of belief that our present in our pluralistic society; it encourages a balance between the spiritual, psychological and cultural development of pupils, in their own historical context and environment; it helps them to understand the cultural and artistic heritage of Spain

7. It does not the same... “LAICITÉ” Autonomy of civil matter and religious matter. “LAYCISM”: “laycist” that have become belligerent against the presence of the religion in the school Meanwhile are attending with concern at campaigns of harassment against the subject of religion at school and its teachers on the part of groups that do not give importance to the religious culture and the possibility of knowing different religions at school, not respecting the effective legislation

8. Why we ask RE for? • Porque es un derecho y una responsabilidad de los padres. • Porque queremos una educación integral para nuestros hijos. • Porque la persona es un ser religioso. • Porque la religión configura la vida social. • Porque es una realidad europea. • Porque ha creado grandes expresiones artísticas. • Porque responde a interrogantes profundos de las personas. • Porque propone los valores fundamentales de la vida humana. • Porque favorece el diálogo y el encuentro con otras religiones y culturas… • Porque es lo mejor para mí y para mis hijos.

9. What offer Religious Education? The pupils speak “Developing a life together among people of different tradition and variety of attitude” “Respect for the personal value of others, for living in a common society ” having the capacity to develop their own identity “to know oneself…; to know God...; to know more...” “help me in my faith and life…”

10. KINDERGARTEN3-6 years One hour and a half a week

11. PRIMARY SCHOOLS (6-11 years) One hour and a half a week The pupils that not choose RE: EDUCATIONAL ATTENTION.

12. SECONDARY 12-16 years One hour a week The pupils that not choose RE: RELIGIONS HISTORY or EDUCATIONAL ATTENTION.

13. ADVANCED 16-18 Two hours in two years. The subject is chosen voluntarly, there is not alternative

14. RE TEACHERS We can state our satisfaction with the approval of the amendment on religious education teachers. RE teachers in Spain are indefinite since the 10th of Juny 2007. It is to be hoped, for the good of one and all, and with the consensus of all the interested parties - the Administration, religious entities and teachers’ representatives, that this new statue for religious education teachers will be correctly developed