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Actitud frente a la evangelización escolar católica en estudiantes de enseñanza media y la percepción de los profesores sobre este proceso formativo en una provincia de la región del Biobío

2016; Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; Linguagem: Inglês

10.7764/pel.53.2.2016.3

0719-0409

María Daniela Raby Bravo, Alejandra Nocetti de la Barra,

Religion and Society in Latin America

Society is changing rapidly and, under these circumstances, educational activity constitutes a key means of transmitting the gospel message and thus contributing to the comprehensive training of students. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the national level there is insufficient knowledge about the process of evangelization in the school context and, for this reason, this study is intended to describe the attitudes of high school students to the process of school evangelization. It also examines the experience of teachers in terms of factors that facilitate and hinder the process. According to the above objective, it was decided that research would be conducted with a focus on integration of paradigms. A Likert-type questionnaire was applied to characterize the willingness of students towards school evangelization and, in addition, focus groups were conducted to explore the perspective of the teachers. The results show an unfavorable attitude towards school evangelization. In addition, teachers have difficulty defining what school evangelism is and they recognize that the methodology used is traditional and demotivation for students. However, it was found that knowledge of the life of Jesus and his teachings helps young people to resolve personal dilemmas and face situations in their young lives from another perspective.