Archbishop Franz Lackner paid his inaugural visit on Monday afternoon as chairman of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference Education Minister Christoph Retonal. The conversation focused on questions about the role of religious education in the context of the planned new school subject of democracy formation and the planned reform in the training of teachers, which will also affect the church educational universities.
Lackner and return affirmation to continue to continue the good cooperation. One sees themselves as “allies from kindergarten to adult education,” emphasized return. Discussions in a positive atmosphere had already been attended during a visit to the Graz Bishops Wilhelm Krautwaschl, who was responsible for school issues in the Bishops’ Conference for school issues, and the Vienna head of the school office Andrea Pinz in April. “We invest a lot in the educational and school area and are happy if this service is also recognized accordingly,” said Lackner.
The school subject of democracy education planned for the lower level and the middle schools also came up. This was intended as a “supplement” for religious education, according to the return, which at the same time showed itself open to the contribution of religious teaching on the educational goal of this new subject: “I welcome everything that the religious education contributes to supporting the common value foundation of society,” said Return.
Return to the planned reform of the training of teachers, which will also affect the church pedagogical universities (KPH), said that this was a long -term project and concerns according to a careful procedure. The KPHs are “important partners” here, so they will also inform them in good time and get them on board.
In addition, his coming to the opening of the new educational campus for over 1,000 children and adolescents on the grounds of the Archbishop’s private high school in Borromäum in Salzburg-Parsch in October. Return had graduated from the Borromäum in 2009. Accordingly, the Federal Minister was interested in the redesign and the major challenges that the project of the move of the Education Institute for Elementary Pedagogy (BAFEP) brought from the Schwarzstraße to the site of the Borromäum.
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