Course: Spiritually-moral Development

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Course title Spiritually-moral Development
Course code KRE/SPIRM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Machálek Vít, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Spiritual/moral development - introduction. Developmental theories and models. Moral development and its stages. Religious development and its stages. Spiritual/moral development of men and women. Initiation ceremonies in the world's religions. Spiritual experience. Spiritual/moral development in childhood. Spiritual/moral development in adolescence and early adulthood. Spiritual/moral development in middle age. Spiritual/moral development in old age. Art of dying.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Methods of individual activities, Work-related activities
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to look at the problems of the development of a spiritual and moral element of personality in the context of an understanding of contemporary science (mostly developmental psychology) and in relationship to various life-periods and particular life-events.
Student will gain an understanding of spiritual and moral development and will be able to use this knowledge in the reflection of particular experiences and their putting in the context of the whole life having regard to thinking about the question of meaning of life.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Work-related product analysis, Discussion

Credit is dependent on writing a semester paper on one of given topics and passing a written test.
Recommended literature
  • CZECH, J. Psychoterapie a víra. Ostrava, 2003.
  • ERIKSON, E. Životní cyklus rozšířený a dokončený. Praha, 1999.
  • HEIDBRINK, H. Psychologie morálního vývoje. Praha, 1997.
  • HOLM, N. G. Úvod do psychologie náboženství. Praha, 1998.
  • ŘÍČAN, P. Cesta životem. Praha, 2006.
  • ŘÍČAN, P. Psychologie náboženství a spirituality. Praha, 2007.
  • ŘÍČAN, P. Psychologie náboženství. Praha, 2002.
  • WEST, G. K. Dobrodružství psychického vývoje. Praha, 2002.


Study plans that include the course
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