Nowadays, it is important to seek answers not so much to the question of whether religiosity is changing – because we know that it is – but to the question of how the religiosity of young people is changing, what factors accelerate this process, which aspects of religiosity are subject to accelerated deconstruction, and what are the mechanisms of these transformations. In this sociological study, the religiosity of high school youth has been described based on the sample of selected parameters of religiosity, i.e., religious self-declarations, religious affiliation, religious belief and faith, and mandatory religious practices. We hypothesize that religiosity in the post-pandemic society has not reached the level it had in the pre-pandemic period,  especially with regard to religious practices. The religiosity of the high school youth in Poland is presented on the basis of sociological analysis and the results of sociological studies, including public opinion polls carried out in 2015–2022.

Prayer seems to have various functions in human life. In this paper, it has been presented as a verbal manifestation of spirituality, as a tool for elaborating experience, for giving it meaning and finally as an immanent expression of humanity. I consider this work as a place of creative meeting of two ideas, whose authors are Janusz Korczak and Viktor E. Frankl. It is a timid attempt to look at one author through the eyes of the other. The aim of this article is to explore the mental representations of God as created in the minds
of the subjects who speak in Korczak’s work Sam na sam z Bogiem and, on this basis, to attempt to determine the function that prayer plays for them. It also looks at the notion of humanity and the role that spirituality, broadly defined, plays in its constitution.

The main aim of this article is to show an example of the new opportunities in Korczakian research. They have arisen due to the development of digital history and recently donated or hitherto unused archival resources. The article also adopts the perspective of deepening the knowledge of those aspects of the Korczak research field that is not directly related to Janusz Korczak, his biography and pedagogy. I consider it important to explore the topics and biographies of people around Korczak, not only Stefania Wilczyńska, but
also children, educators or staff. The more complete the picture of Korczak’s universe, the better we will understand the multidirectional influences and connections between individuals and topics. My ambition was also to introduce non-Polish-speaking researchers to Korczak source materials that are rarely translated from Polish. My preliminary research, based on almost unknown sources from the archives of Lohamei Ha’Getaot in Israel (Ghetto Fighters’ House Archives), served as an example of how to take advantage of new opportunities. I adopted a microhistorical approach and analyzed personal documents, primarily letters of the pupils of the Orphans’ Home from 1938/1939–1941. The content of the sources made it possible to look at love and friendship relationships among the teenagers in the Orphans’ Home. I also discuss the topics of love and friendship in the pedagogical context of Janusz Korczak’s approach. Their intimate stories complement the knowledge of the history and functioning of the Orphans’ Home that we get from Korczak’s writings, Wilczyńska’s texts and other documents. In turn, the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that can be captured in the sources I examined allow us to assume that also in the aspect of love and friendship relations, we can capture the positive impact of the Orphans’ Home on its pupils.

In his article, Adrian Uljasz discusses media reception and the ideological and educational message of the adaptation of Janusz Korczak’s novel King Matt the First, the film King Matthew I (directed by Wanda Jakubowska, screenplay by Wanda Jakubowska and Igor Newerly) (1957). Uljasz addresses the means of artistic expression on which the authors based the educational message of this film. By media reception Uljasz understands the reception of Jakubowska and Newerly’s works in the media, from traditional printed
works to the contemporary metamedium, the Internet. This research topic has gained in importance due to the anniversaries related to Korczak and Newerly. In 2022, eighty years had passed since the deaths of Korczak and his pupils and employees from the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw (1942). 1987 saw the death of Igor Newerly, educator and writer, co-author of the script for Jakubowska’s adaptation and Korczak’s close associate from the Warsaw orphanage. The film can be regarded in terms of transference of the views of
these two writers-educators.

The paper addresses the contexts of pedeutology, incidentally revealed in the literature, considering personal development as an important educational element preparing for the role of a teacher. Pedagogy is a praxeological science, linked to continuous development and inspiration search, the acquisition of new theoretical knowledge and methodological skills, supplemented with the development of interpersonal competences and improvement of self-knowledge. Hence, an important element of the academic training of
future teachers is personal development classes. It is also necessary to develop a curriculum of courses with the widest possible range of optional workshop classes, which help students build their self-knowledge, recognise and discover their individual areas of self-fulfilment, and develop self-creation competences. The analyses of the narratives of pre-school education students and early childhood pedagogy of the University of Silesia in Katowice show the relevance and efficiency of self-improvement through participation in workshops based on dance and movement, and in other expressive activities, which are indeed an integral part of academic education.

The article focuses on the ideological and educational aspects of selected Ukrainian-centric thinkers and activists. Without the ideological and educational activities of this small group of the emerging Ukrainian intelligentsia, the million ethnic Ukrainian masses would have been absorbed into the Polish or Russian nationality project. The text presents the basic ideological principles that are the basis for shaping national consciousness and describes adverse historical conditions causing difficulties in shaping the Ukrainian idea
of independence. The implementation of Ukrainian-centric ideas is shown on the example of selected organizations and representatives of Ukrainian culture, such as The Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Hromada, Stara Hromada, Panteleimon Kulish, Mykola Kostomarov, Volodymyr Antonovych,
Mykhailo Drahomanov. The aim of the article is to present the importance of education in the process of formation of national consciousness.

Recenzja książki Tadeusza Sławka pt. A jeśli nie trzeba się uczyć… (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2021)