Harcerskie ścieżki ku rozumieniu rozwoju duchowego w Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego w latach 1989-2022
Scouting Paths: Towards Understanding of Spiritual Development in the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association in the Years 1989-2022

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to show what understandings of spirituality (and consequently, spiritual development) can be found in the documents issued by the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP) in the years 1989-2022, and which of them is dominant. RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: In order to answer these questions, I will create a narrative, following the pattern of historical research (Rubacha, 2008), to analyse secondary sources, documents (Palka, 2006, p. 72), such as: Statutes, educational curricula, Scout Codes of Conduct, resolutions of the ZHP authorities. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: At the beginning of my deliberations, I present an analysis of the values contained in the Statutes, resolutions and Codes of Conduct of ZHP, as I consider these values to be the foundation of spiritual development. Then, I go to present changes in understanding the spiritual development by the association. RESEARCH RESULTS: Analysis of the ZHP documents from the years 1989-2022 allows to state that the association applies alternately two different understandings of spirituality: traditional and post-modern. The traditional one is dominant in the years 1995-2017. After that period, the discussion on understanding the spirituality was reinitiated in the association. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS: The proposed analysis may occur to be a contribution to further research on understanding the spiritual development in other scout and scouting organisations in Poland and abroad. It may also be an inspiration for further discussions undertaken by members of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association.

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