In his article, Maciej Michalski discusses cognitive barriers and other challenges that have strong impact on proecological education. People find it difficult to understand the issue of the ecological crisis because of the common cognitive fallacies and logical errors as well as the complexity of this crisis. For these reasons, proecological education is finding it difficult to transmit and acquire knowledge as well as to ensure its verification and operationalization. As a result, proecological education requires new educational practices, different to those which are used in other areas of education. In particular, it requires an integration of different school courses and the development of the skill of critical thinking, moral sensitivity, and civic responsibility.

The article focuses on the topic of psychomotor development of children attending forest kindergartens. Other authors’ research findings, showing the influence of nature on the functioning of children, were presented as a background and a reference point to the results of my own research. The research carried out in the Czech Republic and Germany, whose results indicate the development of children from local forest kindergartens, are presented in greater detail. The central part of the article is the presentation of the results
of own research concerning the psychomotor development of children attending forest kindergartens in Poland. The research demonstrates that children who attend the said forest kindergartens vary in terms of their psychomotor development, however, in most cases their development does not deviate from the indicative norm. Therefore, forest kindergartens create conditions for children’s proper psychomotor development.

Teaching music and visual arts to children can be seen as the key to their development. In his article, Jakub Adamczewski discusses the current shape of the organization of the teaching and planning processes of these two subjects in the context of the Polish primary school. Adamczewski’s main aim is to present new ideas and good practices, as based on his teaching experience, in the hope that they can be used to improve art education. This kind of knowledge, deriving from both a review of the literature on this subject and pedagogical experience, may be of value for teachers and academics involved in the education of art teachers at the primary-school level.

The aim of the article is to identify the main factors that may shape the development of the psychopathic killer personality. In order to unveil these factors, a “composite drawing” needed to have been created depicting the characteristics of serial killer. What has been indicated in particular are environmental and educational factors which, by triggering a certain mechanism, contribute to the probability of a given individual’s entering the path of evil and breaking social norms. Based on the analysis of selected subject literature, the article propounds a thesis that neither ethnicity nor race influence the development of the psychopathic killer personality features.

Unlike the traditional person-centred models where character traits are attached to the actions, the Actiotope Model of Giftedness (AMG) focuses on the person-environment interactions. The model asserts that successful learning requires essential sources including learning and educational capital situated in the environment. This study aims to validate the Persian version of the Questionnaire of Educational and Learning Capital (QELC) among students in Iran (n = 283). The Persian QELC was prepared and utilised to evaluate the sources revealed in the AMG. Results show that the Persian QELC has satisfactory psychometric properties.

In this review, the author discusses the book of a recognized and widely read researcher in the field of cultural studies, Zbyszko Melosik. Melosik’s new book in the series of his studies on popular culture is about the car, an ambiguous object in Western culture.