Educational Rationality and Religious Education in Polish Public Schools

Autor/inn/en	Milerski, Boguslaw; Karwowski, Maciej
Titel	Educational Rationality and Religious Education in Polish Public Schools
Quelle	In: Journal of Beliefs & Values, 44 (2023) 1, S.81-98 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Milerski, Boguslaw) ORCID (Karwowski, Maciej)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361 7672
DOI	10.1080/13617672.2021.2018214
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Religious Education; Student Attitudes; Secondary School Students; Public Schools; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Schülerverhalten; Sekundarschüler; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Polen
Abstract	In Poland, a country with a very high level of religiosity, religious education at school is confessional but not compulsory: it is an optional subject chosen by the student. In this article, we explore attitudes regarding participation in religion classes and explanations of the purpose of religious education as provided by adolescent students. We refer to the findings of our research on the rationality of school education and apply them to research on religious education. Rationality is defined as the logic of justifying the purpose of school education and four rationalities: praxeological, emancipatory, hermeneutic, and negational are distinguished. In a large and representative sample of secondary school students (N = 2,810), we examined the relationship between types of rationality and students' attitudes and opinions towards religious education in school. We observed that high school students perceived religious education as highly conservative and declared the strongest support for more dialogical and liberal religious education. Moreover, students' hermeneutical rationality was the primary factor associated with their lack of satisfaction with the current religious education and postulates to change it into a more dialogical one. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01