Youth religious education: from the ideas of reformist pedagogy to modern times

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the state of youth religious education, taking into account the mutual influence of educational and religious ideas in Galicia in the context of Reformed pedagogy of the turn of the 20th century. To achieve the goal, three scientific tasks were solved, in particular: to study the main factors of dissemination and interpretation of the ideas of Reformed pedagogy in Galicia; to identify fundamental aspects of the interaction of educational and religious ideas; to consider the nature of postulates of religious or Christian pedagogy; to study the opinion of student youth regarding their religious beliefs and influence on worldview (225 students of various higher education institutions of Ukraine aged from 19 to 22 participated in the survey). Based on the analysis of the impact of the ideas of reformative pedagogy illustrated by Galicia of the early 20th century, the system of religious education from the points of view of Ukrainian and Polish pedagogues as well as religious figures is discussed. Religious education is emphasized to be a powerful means of developing moral values of the individual, and a significant factor of their social behavior. Facts of interaction of educational and religious ideas in the context of reformative pedagogy in the theory and educational practice of Galicia are stated.