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Religious and Cultural Mediation: A response to the signs of the times
Full text linkTheology and theological faculties not only have a role to play vis-à-vis believers, but they also have a role to play as part of the university and the public sphere. Kairology, as a spiritual diagnosis of the times, is a part of public theology and can contribute to the social common good. It can be helpful in the search for solutions to the problems of our time. One of such solutions represents the bachelor’s programme Religious and Cultural Mediation, which responds to the deep divisions and different conflicts within our communities
The Influence of Value Orientation on the Level of Teacher Burnout
Full text linkThe article highlights the influence of teachers’ values and personal beliefs on their resilience to burnout syndrome. It points out that loss of idealism and enthusiasm for work, accompanied by exhaustion, cynicism, and decreased motivation, is common among teachers who enter the profession with idealistic and altruistic values, a deep sense of mission, a desire to help children, and a desire to change society for the better. If the school environment supports these values and creates a supportive climate, this can act as a protective factor
Worldviews, Virtues, and Education: What móre on Meaning-oriented-reflection MORe3.1.2?
Full text linkMeaning-oriented Reflection (i.e. ‘MORe3.1.2’) is addressed as modus operandi for reflecting on ethical behaviour. The article connects decolonising the curriculum, worldviews core virtues, educational interventions, while ensuring a safe learning environment. Critical thinking, based on normative rationales, allowing educational design research concepts, is focal. Four alternative interventions, using MORe3.1.2 with admitting decolonised differing descriptions of a bonded network of six core virtues, provide answer. Ideas for further research are suggested
Leadership Styles and their Influence on Ethical Behaviour in the Education of Healthcare Professionals
Full text linkThe Organisation and Management in Healthcare programme in the Czech Republic has been established in the faculties of health studies. As the most common follow-up master’s degree programme, it also includes subjects that educate non-medical healthcare professionals in leadership. Given the experience of healthcare professionals with a negative leadership function style, it is important to pay attention to the teaching of different leadership styles with their impact on ethical behaviour. The presented article will present two leadership styles, servant leadership and transformational leadership, with their impact on ethics and values. Education in these approaches can change the style of performing a leadership function, the climate, and satisfaction in the workplace, and last but not least, the quality of the care provided
Theoretical Applications of Modern Apologetics: Internal and External Applications
Full text linkThe theological field of Christian apologetics has a long and storied history. Due in part to that history and recent interpretations and applications, the field has become detailed and complex to the point that many cannot understand or apply apologetics in the world today effectively. This paper proposes dividing the field into two specific areas, internal and external apologetics, for more clarity around education and application of the field and process. “Internal” would apply to individuals already on the “inside” of the Christian faith; while “external” would be applied to those who are not active Christians
The Teacher as an Authority: Between Heracles and Gregor Samsa
Full text linkThis study analyses two models of authority in the perspective of philosophy of education – one associated with the Herculean myth and its romantic re-reading, and the other with Latour’s interpretation of Gregor Samsa concerning teaching. The study analyses two models of authority and attempts to point out a particular crisis in the understanding of authority in the context of critical perceptions of modernity
Pedagogical Translanguaging as a Bridge of Return: Supporting Children of Re-Emigrant Families in Polish Schools
Full text linkThe growing return of Polish citizens from Western European countries, increased by Brexit and steady economic growth in Poland, has, for some years, been transforming the demographic and linguistic condition of Polish schools. School children of re-emigrant families, who are frequently bilingual and bicultural, experience educational difficulties entering Polish schools. Based on current research on and theoretical framework of pedagogical translanguaging, this article claims that recognition of students’ multilingual competencies can be a pedagogical answer to such learning difficulties. Pedagogical translanguaging, a thoughtful practice that activates the whole learner’s linguistic repertoire, provides individualization, cognitive flexibility, and facilitates education. The article outlines the philosophical implications for rehumanizing education in an era of global mobility and presents practical applications within the Polish curriculum
Ethics at the Heart of Teaching in Higher Education
Full text linkThis paper explores the essential role of ethics in teaching, beyond the mere transmission of knowledge and technical competencies. Drawing on Christophe Dejours’ definition of work as the gap between prescribed tasks and actual execution, the author argues that teaching involves a deeply human, relational, and ethical dimension. Through personal reflections and real-life examples, the text highlights the importance of empathy, engagement, and personal responsibility. Teaching is portrayed not as a technocratic act, but as a space for intellectual and personal emancipation, where both teacher and student co-construct knowledge within a relationship grounded in respect, care, and critical reflection. The article critiques the utilitarian drift of higher education towards productivity and employability, advocating instead for a pedagogy centered on human development and social responsibility. It calls for a renewed focus on the ethical foundations of education – emphasizing dialogue, empathy, and the nurturing of autonomous, reflective individuals – ultimately positioning ethics as the core of the pedagogical relationship
Churches as School Learning Spaces – Perspectives on Didactics of Sacred Spaces
Full text linkThe didactics of sacred spaces is an integrative approach within school-based religious education. It emphasizes churches as didactic learning environments that connect cognitive understanding with sensory and performative engagement. Through multisensory, participatory, and reflective methods, learners encounter the symbolic, aesthetic, and theological dimensions of sacred spaces without being missionized. It outlines principles such as slowing down, sensory experience, appropriation, and movement, underscoring the pedagogical value of learning in real church spaces. Ultimately, church space didactics fosters deeper religious literacy and sustainable, reflective learning
The Pursuit of Truth and Education
Full text linkDescribing part of teaching that Cicero dedicated to his son Marcus, and analysing nature and culture as two cooperative hands, the text explains love of wisdom as the reason for publishing the journal Theology and Philosophy of Education