SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
ISLAM IS TAUGHT IN GERMAN SCHOOLS
Taking into account the irreplaceable role of the inter-confessional dialogue in all-round development of youth, the Federal Education System of Germany has decided to educational principles of Koran, which are too far from fundamentalism and rely on national traditions and moral values.
Islam has been teaching in Berlin, Hamburg, and the lands of Brandenburg, Bavaria, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Niedersachsen as a subject ‘Islamology’ since 2001.
In the Niedersachsen’s schools of general education Islam has been taught on a high level, with special conception and curriculum elaborated. Moslem, Catholic and Protestants religious confessions and organizations functioning in Germany approved this plan and supported it with concrete assistance.
Considering the teaching of Islam’s values as a beginning of the new era in the county’s education system, the Minister of Culture of the federal land of Niedersachsen expressed hope that this experience would be applied in other German schools soon.