Teachers of the primary schools of Pčinjski district on the contribution to the lecturing of orthodox catechism in the education of pupils for peace and democracy

researches of religious education are becoming more and more complex. Curricula of religious education, its educational efficiency, competence of teachers, possible pros and cons of religious education etc., are only some of problems which attract researcher's attention from different scientific fields dealing with the study of religious education. Based on the mentioned researches a lot of publications were issued, and there were more scientific papers in magazines on religious education which were getting more importance. The key problem of its insufficient efficiency has been connected with realization in school. The research problem in this paper is the contribution of the lecturing of the Orthodox Catechism in the education of the pupils from primary schools for peace and democracy. In the research we started from the hypothesis that the lecturing of the Orthodox Catechism besides the contributions in the development of morale and human qualities of pupil's personality, it can also contribute to the education for peace and democracy. In order to determine that, a research on the sample of 126 teachers of primary schools in the area of Pcinjski District was conducted in January 2018, which was shown in this paper. Data gathered by the Scaler PNOS-DVOUOSDGD (α = 0,81) were processed by Factual analysis and t-test. By the factual analysis three components which indicate to the most frequent contribution of the lecturing of the Orthodox Catechism in the education of pupils for peace and democracy were singled out: 1) morale education, 2) education for democracy and 3) education for peace (KMO = 0,73, common variance = 63,03%, p = 0,000). The results given by t-test shown that there were a significant difference in the assessments of teachers having experience in lecturing of the Orthodox Catechism comparing with other teachers: t = 2, 24, p = 0,014, η = 0, 04 and in the assessments of teachers by Scaler PNOS of the subject and class lecturing: t = 2, 86, p = 0,009, η = 0, 06 on the contribution of the lecturing of the Orthodox Catechism for peace and democracy. Based on the research result didactic implications for quality of lecturing improvement of the Orthodox Catechism were given so as to be in the function of the education of pupils for peace, democracy and mutual understanding of different cultures in multicultural civic society. In order to implement it in the practice, it is necessary the lecturing of the Orthodox Catechism to be designed, prepared, planned, and realized as per the needs of pupils and society, and contents of religious education. Contents of religious education should be of practical character. It is necessary to introduce a curriculum in schools through which pupils will be able to learn on different religious customs. In that way, pupils will be more familiar with their and religious education of others, which will be very useful in the quests of common points for giving incentives to understanding and co-operation. Due to that, duty of democratic society is to make available knowledge on religious, ethnical, and social organization of other minority communities to pupils (Table 7; Chart 1).