The world scout movement, including the Polish scout movement refers to a lesser or even to an orthodox extent to the pedagogical ideas and assumptions of Scouting by Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell and the successors of his pedagogics. In the article I respond to the question, to what extent does contemporary pedagogical thought refer to the phenomenon of scout movement education? Can we speak of the pedagogy of scouting or rather of scouting pedagogics? These issues cannot be solved solely on the level of normative models if one would not reach to former studies without indicating the necessity of conducting a scientific turn in this regard.
The core of the analysis is countering the myth that allegedly using new communications technologies by children and youths is toxic to their development. In the post-modern world, children enter into partner and educational relationships with their parents specifically thanks to their better abilities to use new media. Changes the science of upbringing and education management are also necessary.
The subject of the analysis is the reception of Montessori education in post-socialist Poland. The author focuses mainly on the models of pedeutological research to emphasise the important role played by the teacher as a professional, educator, but also a human being in this alternative upbringing and education. He recalls the most important results of research on the specificity of teaching work in Montessori institutions.
The subject of analysis is the concept of holism in contemporary Polish pedagogical thought, changing its meaning in the course of the development of humanistic and social sciences. Hence, I undertake reflection on whether holistic pedagogy exists, whether possibly among its diversified theories, systems of knowledge and models there occurs a holistic approach to science, research methodology and/or educational influences.
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