Duszpasterstwo nauczycieli

Abstract

The teachers pastorate is a domain in the Church work directed towards a particular professional group comprising teachers and educators working in primary and secondary schools. This activity conducted by the Church aspires to make teachers properly understand their vocation and their work in the contemporary school. It reveals a broad range of problems encountered by teachers in their everyday work and it shows the proper place of school in the life of the nation and in the education system. The pastorate of teachers gives help in discovering the proper purpose of teaching and educating as well as shows the ideal of the teacher and the pupil. Seeing the range of difficulties and threats they encounter in their work, teachers want to make their spiritual life more profound, so that together with the parents they could undertake the task of bringing up the new generation. In response to the problems occurring among teachers and educators the Church points to the need to put into effect the idea of teachers pastorate.