Religions and schooling
Religious instruction
In a highly centralised system, training and recruitment of public school teachers, development of study programmes and the drawing up, printing and distribution of educational texts is (...)
The importance of Orthodoxy
The requirement of religious instruction is based on the connection which exists between the Orthodox standard in Greece (article 3 of the Constitution) and the national and religious (...)
Taking religious minorities into account
Non-Orthodox students, if they so choose, are exempt from religion class, prayer and school masses, but no other type of instruction is available. In order to obtain an exemption, both parents (...)
Taking diversity into account
Faced with the religious and ethnic diversification of the Greek society since the 90s there have been initiatives that show an awareness of the diversity in ethnic backgrounds and religions (...)