Gestalt Approach of Albert Höfer in Religion Classes during the First Four Years of Primary Education

Abstract

The subject of this contribution is research of the further education of teachers in Gestalt pedagogy in a European context in general; it also focuses on the teaching of religious education. The research results from the author’s study of the subject in Austria at the Institute of Integrative gestalt pedagogy and religious formation, under the leadership of its founder prof. Albert Höfer.

Keywords

• Gestalt pedagogics
• education of teachers
• institutes of Gestalt pedagogics
• principles