Możliwości rozwiązania sporu o ideologię w edukacji. Znaczenie edukacji filozoficznej
Opportunities to Solve the Dispute About Ideology in Education. The Significance of Philosophical Education

Summary/Abstract: Contrary to popular opinions, teaching philosophical subjects is not ideologically neutral. Currently, philosophy is characterized by theoretical pluralism (the base of contemporary civilizational trends) which assumes that basic philosophical orientations, trends and positions are of the same value. Neither in the whole history of philosophy nor nowadays any criteria on the basis of which the superiority/inferiority of one philosophical formation over another could be clearly determined have been formed (apart from direct rejection of extreme cases of ideological orientations leading to such ideologies as the totalitarian one). It also applies to religious formations where the truth is believed to be in the act of faith, not in arguments based on knowledge. Meanwhile, in Polish school education Catholic worldview is being given preference (the lack of general philosophical education, clearly evident institutional obstacles to organize ethics classes). Almost compulsory school classes where religion (no matter which one) is taught is not in conformity with the modern worldview and cultural paradigm (compare e.g. the contemporary phenomenon of multi- and transreligiousness). The theoretical dispute about educational ideas, in the situation where the adoption of socially acceptable solutions is a must, has become an ideological dispute. Dominance of the Catholic worldview in school education is legitimate only on the grounds of tradition and socio-cultural interests of a given religious formation (the category of interest having priority over the category of socio-philosophical truth). The inadequacy of educational solutions in relation to the cultural truth of the current historical period is one of the causes of the present crisis of education in Poland. The analysis of possible solutions to the dispute about the ideology in education is becoming of great importance. One of the solutions is to introduce compulsory and universal philosophical education in Polish schools (an example of the nation’s cultural interest having priority over the interests of one religious formation).

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