Religion as a Subject of Moral Education in Spain : A study of the Junior High School curriculum based oil LOCE<教育科学>

This paper investigates the curriculum on moral educationat school in Spain. Teaching Catholic religion has been justified in formal schooling of Spainby upholding "International Treaties on Education" with Vatican State (1979). However, with an increasing number of immigrants, the subject of "Religion" in Public schools has faced new problems. By studying the syllabi of Junior High School, which are based on LOCE (Ley Organica de Calidad de la Educaci6n, 2002), I sum up the role and the position of the subjects related with morality, which are properly adapted to the new educative setting by LOE (Ley Organica de Educacion, 2006).