Youth Attitudes towards Religious Education in Poland

Helena Słotwińska is Professor of Theology at the The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Habilitated Doctor of Social Sciences in Pedagogy with primary research interests in the pedagogy of religion, catechetics, didactics, and methodology. Paweł Mąkosa is Professor of Theology specializing in religious education, with research focusing on the effectiveness of religious instruction in schools and the challenges posed by youth secularization. His research focuses on issues related to the prospects of evangelization, evaluation in religious teaching, role of the laity in the process of religious education. Marta Buk-Cegiełka is Doctor of Humanities in the field of Pedagogy at the The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her research interests focus on the integral development, values clarification, formation of key competencies, educational and didactic systems in Poland and abroad. Adam Kubiś is Professor at the Faculty of Theology / Institute of Biblical Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Marek Jagodziński, Prof. Dr. hab., is Professor in the Chair of the Orthodox Theology at the Faculty of Theology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, and Major Seminary in Radom, Poland. Paweł Mąkosa is Professor of Theology specializing in religious education, with research focusing on the effectiveness of religious instruction in schools and the challenges posed by youth secularization. Antoni Nadbrzeżny serves as an associate professor of dogmatic theology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, where he earned his S.T.D. (2002) and Habilitation (2014). He also earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow in 2019. He received a master's degree in Dutch philology from KUL in 2013. Nadbrzeżny is engaged in research on contemporary Dutch and Flemish theology.