3-3-0

The purpose of this course is to introduce pre-service teachers to the Ethics and Religious Culture program, implemented in all Quebec elementary schools as of 2008. Topics covered will include familiarization with Quebec religious hertiage and current social and religious trends; consideration of local and global social visions, values and prescriptions; awareness of different cosmologies and understandings of humanity; encouraging the ability to take a reflective position on moral or ethical issues; developing understandings and appreciation of religious diversity and secular perspectives; and fostering the ability to position oneself with repsect to issues of self and other in questions on meaning of life, death, suffering, social justice and more. Particular attention will be given to making the theoretical dialogue within this course applicable to the teaching context.