Seminare, 2024, Tom 45, nr 1

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Gifted Students in the Light of the Statutes of the Commission for National Education
Stańczak, Małgorzata (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
The idea to undertake the research presented in this article was sparked by the 250th anniversary of establishing, on October 14, 1773, the Commission for National Education, which was the first in Poland state office for education. The establishment of the Commission gave rise to great hopes for education of new generations of Poles, whose future activities were meant to help the country rise from the fall after the first partition of Poland carried out by Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1772. The research aimed to analyse the conditions created by the Commission for National Education for gifted children and youth in the educational system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The article discusses the research findings which provide an answer to the question about educational solutions introduced in the provisions of the Statutes of the Commission of National Education to support the development of students’ abilities. The research used the documentary research method. The content of the Statutes of 1783 published by Stanisław Sobieski in 1872 in Lviv was qualitatively analyzed. The original version of the document is currently kept in the digital resources of the Greater Poland Digital Library. The research showed that although the Statutes of the Commission contained no separate chapter devoted to specific provisions regulating education of gifted students, the Legislator still allowed for some organizational, financial, personal and methodical solutions which offered opportunities for the development of students’ abilities. The article provides an overview of the regulations concerning the system of school awards, institution of tutors and instruction of teachers with the resulting benefits for gifted students.
The Role of Conscientiousness in the Religious and Moral Functioning of Young Adults
Śmiałek, Sebastian (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
According to the Five-Factor Model of Personality by Paul Costa and Robert R. McCrae, a conscientious person is strong-willed, self-motivated, persistent and dutiful. All these predispositions can also be used in the religious and moral sphere. The period of early adulthood is a developmental period abounding in tasks that require conscientiousness, and, at the same time, it provides many opportunities to make moral and religious choices. The purpose of this article is to analyse the relationship between conscientiousness as well as moral and religious functioning of young adults. This study juxtaposes in a theoretical way conscientiousness as a personality trait as well as moral and religious abilities of those in early adulthood. For this purpose, a qualitative analysis was conducted based on scientific psychological theories and the results of sociological and psychological studies. The comparison led to the conclusion that conscientiousness is linked with the moral and religious aspect, and that its factors such as dutifullness and self-control can support religious and moral functioning of young adults. Dutifulness can support an individual in striving for consistency between professed norms and decisions made. Self-discipline allows for the realization of these norms, especially when a person must confront them with other life challenges. It also paves the way for further research and helps create effective methods to aid in the fulfilment of developmental tasks during early adulthood.
Cristo Rey Schools and the Preferential Option for the Poor
Robinson, Julie; Cooney, Pauline; McKinney, Stephen (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
Cristo Rey schools are a unique and distinctive form of Jesuit education. They have been very successful since the mid 1990s and are deemed to be coherent with Jesuit educational principles and the preferential option for the poor. They are only available to young people from low-income homes and are open to young people of all faiths and none. The Cristo Rey schools offer an intense and supportive environment for the students and prepare them for admission to college and university. Nevertheless, there are critiques of these schools that focus on: the financial model that means that the students must work one day a week; the nature of this work and questions about the ethical perspectives of the employers. There are further questions about cultural dissonance between the students and staff of the schools. This article explores the sociological and theological foundations of the Cristo Ray schools, evaluates their effectiveness and success and analyses the various points that are raised in the critique of these schools.
Adoptive Youth Ministry of Chap Clark. A Critical Appraisal from a Catholic Perspective
Pinto, Jason (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
W Kościele pojawia się obecnie nowy sposób myślenia wynikający z dwóch fundamentalnych założeń duszpasterstwa młodzieży, a mianowicie postrzegania roli młodzieży jako podmiotu i przedmiotu owego duszpasterstwa według tego, co przedstawiono w adhortacji apostolskiej o młodzieży Christus Vivit. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje temat duszpasterstwa młodzieży w oparciu o teologię adopcji głoszoną przez Chapa Clarka, prezbiteriańskiego pastora ze Stanów Zjednoczonych, który zaangażowany był w działalność związaną z duszpasterstwem młodzieży przez ostatnie 27 lat. Clark propaguje duchowość chrześcijańską opartą na przynależności do wspólnoty, którą on sam określa mianem „Adopcyjnego Duszpasterstwa Młodzieży”. Celem duszpasterstwa młodzieży rozumianego jako adopcja jest stworzenie takich warunków dla każdego dziecka, nastolatka i młodego dorosłego, by wstąpienie do wspólnoty wiary dawało im możliwość znalezienia domu, własnej społeczności i miejsca, w którym mogliby oni odkrywać, kim są i jaki wkład mogą wnieść do tej wspólnoty. Duszpasterstwo młodzieży wskazuje konkretny kierunek procesu włączania młodzieży w życie kościelne. Z punktu widzenia Kościoła Katolickiego metoda Clarka stanowi cenne rozwinięcie kościelnej teologii duszpasterstwa młodzieży.
Difficulties in Choosing a Secondary School in the Opinion of Parents
Pardej, Katarzyna (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
The current state of knowledge indicates that the decisionmaking process related to the choice of a secondary school involves not only students, but also their parents whom young people perceive as their best advisors. The article presents the results of the author’s own research conducted in Polish secondary schools. The research was aimed at identifying the difficulties and accompanying circumstances related to the choice of a secondary school in the opinion of parents of firstgrade students at technical schools. The conducted qualitative research was based on the interview method. The research sample was N=53. The analysis of the research material was carried out using the MAXQDA 2022 program. The analysis of qualitative data allowed to identify the determinants of difficulties or lack of difficulties related to choosing a secondary school.
Importance of Teacher’s Personality in the Process of Establishing Proper Relations with Students – Experiences of Adult Pupils
Kozłowska-Nosek, Katarzyna (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
The predominant goal of this article is to elaborate on the importance of teacher’s personality in the process of establishing proper relations with students. The theoretical part of this paper incorporates definitions pertaining to the very profession of a teacher, its specificity, a brief description of competences of a proficient tutor, as well as the explanation of stages of establishing relations with a specific group/class. The examined issue has allowed the author to draw a conclusion that one of individuals having a remarkable impact on the upbringing of young people is a teacher, with whom a lot of time is spent on daily basis in a school-specific environment. The research problem has been approached by formulating the following questions: How do teachers establish relationships with their students? What personality traits should a modern teacher possess? The starting point for the analysis have been outcomes of empirical examinations pertaining to the examined issue. To gather the required empirical material, the author has opted for the case study method and problem-focused narrative interview technique. The examination has been carried out among students from the Warmian-Masurian Province and Masovian Voivodeship.
Religion Lessons and Existential Questions of Children at the Early School Stage. Case Study of a Gifted, Asynchronously Developing Child
Lisowska, Kinga (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
In a dynamically developing world, undergoing continuous cultural, social, economic and political changes, people for centuries now have been looking for answers to basic questions relating to the human lifecycle of birth – existence – death. Children, who are in the identity-shaping phase, experience even more acutely than adults lack of a well-established structure of thinking in terms of the continuity of their being, the meaning and purpose of life, their own death and that of those close to them. They should, therefore, be given an opportunity to find their own way in this respect during school catechesis. This article presents the importance of school catechesis in the search for answers to existential questions posed by primary school children. The presented research was based on a case study of an 8-year-old boy, a second-grade student, whose existential functioning in the period of two years of schooling was determined by school catechesis. It is characterized by continuity in the questions posed by the child as well as a change in experiencing the sense of the lack of meaning and purpose of life, death, searching for and evaluating the elements of good and evil. In the first year of catechesis, the boy “eased” his fear of the end of human life, and in the second year he realized that the source of answers to the questions bothering him were values, principles and examples promoted in the Catholic faith and the community of God.
Negative News about the Catholic Church as a Challenge for a More Active and Critical Reading of the News
Kraner, David (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
Media content is not the facts that happened, but the media’s representation of these facts. The media report and narrate reality in a way that is as interesting as possible for the audience. Because media content contains exaggeration, drama and speculation and frames facts in different contexts, consumers of media content rightly feel that the media distort the truth. We find that there is a very large discrepancy between the life of the Catholic Church (and Catholics) and the news we find in the media, and that the line between fake news and convincing news is very thin. In order to ascertain the facts in media news (and to distinguish between facts, exaggerations and representations), it is necessary to critically evaluate media content. This requires a high level of personal engagement and knowledge of the topic, but also professional expertise in media content. As a result, most users do not analyse media content, but interpret it intuitively or take it literally. Our 2019 survey shows that the media in Slovenia most often associate the Catholic Church with sexual abuse, money and politics. In an analysis of 3735 articles, we examined these topics in detail and found that the connotations of these articles are polarised: half are positive, half negative. Furthermore, in these articles we find no reports on serious socio-political problems and the positive solutions offered by the Catholic Church.
Foster Care in the Light Charter of the Rights of the Family and Other Selected Documents: Polish Initiatives and Solutions
Krajewska, Beata (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
There is a constant need to provide children with foster care in its various forms, both family and institutional. Situations where natural parents do not want or cannot take care of their children show an increasing trend. The issue of foster care should be known to society and be the subject of research exploration. The following article is part of the necessary and ongoing discourse on foster care. The main considerations are the assumptions regarding foster care included in the Charter of Family Rights. The entities and principles of foster care were presented in a synthetic way, and the assumptions regarding foster care found in other legal documents, both international and Polish, were described in more detail in the context of the postulate expressed in the Charter of Family Rights, which is the adoption of appropriate solutions regarding foster care and respect for natural rights of parents. In preparing the article, the method of analysing selected documents in the field of law and literature on the subject was used, as well as the method of content synthesis and the historical method.
The Meaning of Symbolism of Colours in Fear-Themed Drawings of Polish and Turkish Children
Konieczna, Ewelina J.; Talu, Ertugrul (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
The aim of our research was to discover the symbolism of colours applied in fear-themed drawings. The research covered 482 children from Poland and Turkey, whose ages ranged from 6 to 10 years and who were of Polish and Turkish nationalities (purposive sampling, snowball sampling). The research consisted in comparing the range of colours used by the children of both nationalities in their drawings and in interpreting them, considering the respective cultural contexts. For the needs of the analysis presented in the article, we formulated the following questions: What colours dominate the drawings of children of both nationalities? What are the similarities and the differences between the colours applied in the examined drawings? How can the applied colours be interpreted, taking into account their symbolic meaning and function in the given culture? It was discovered that the predominant colours used by the group of examined children were black, red, and blue. Based on the conducted research the authors put forward the hypothesis that the use of these colours in children’s fear-themed drawings is not accidental. They can be treated as colours of fear, which is ones that have a symbolic relation with this emotion. In the case of the colour black, this can be the fear of death, whereas the colour red can symbolize the fear of getting injured. On the other hand, the use of the red and blue colours can also be interpreted as a need to be protected against danger (apotropaic significance of colours).
A Report on the Activities of the Francis de Sales Scientific Society in 2022
Jędrzejewski, Sylwester (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
Protection of Human Life in the Daily Existence of Christian Youth in the Face of the Civilisation of Death
Filipiuk, Łukasz (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
The article addresses the protection of human life in the daily existence of Christian youth in the face of the civilisation of death. In view of the fact that to a large extent contemporary media and public opinion promote abortion as a human right and further attempts are being made to legalise abortion, it seems to be an urgent need to awaken in young people a sensitivity to the life of another human being and to show them the truth about the origins of human existence from conception to natural death, thanks to which they will be able to consciously opt for the civilisation of love. Pointing to Christ as the fullness of life, inviting young people to active participation in Him and recalling the examples of saints offering their lives for others are to encourage teenagers to follow in their footsteps. Pointing out the forms of personal commitment, creating the appropriate conditions for action, as well as accompanying them and taking them on in the wider pro-life work will not only enable young people to discover the sense of helping others, but will also become an important contribution to their personal and spiritual development.
Educational and Therapeutic Intervention in the Context of the Profile of Characteristics of Children with Down Syndrome
Biernat, Renata (Wyższe Seminaria Duchowne Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego, 2024)
This article addresses issues concerning the nature of the most common chromosomal disorder. It indicates the causes, characteristics, behaviors and problems that make up trisomy of chromosome 21. The learning and functioning process of people with Down syndrome (DS) is not determined solely by an extra chromosome. The need to identify the factors and conditions that need to be taken into account in the process of activating individuals burdened with an extra chromosome seems therefore legitimate. Theoretical inquiries into the similarities and differences of children affected by Down syndrome have important implications in the areas of education and rehabilitation. The cooperation of parents with the school promotes the dynamization of the child’s development in both environmental contexts. The choice of the form of special education (in an inclusive, integrative or segregated stream) should be an expression of a thoughtful decision by parents, taking into account a number of factors, such as: the profile of the characteristics of the child with DS, the effects of previous support for his development, parental involvement and expectations, and the availability and conditions offered by a particular school. As more and more pupils with Down syndrome are being placed in mainstream institutions, it seems that the need to promote knowledge of their development and how to take educational and therapeutic measures is still relevant.

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