Published: 2017-10-18

The cultural identity of the Salesian school as the basis of education towards a valuable life

Stanisław Chrobak
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2017.2.15

Abstract

Each organization develops its own culture. This organizational culture largely defines the behaviours of its members; it constitutes the key to their interpretation. Understanding the culture allows better insight into the understanding of human behaviours. Each school is part of the broader culture of the society and the nation, it introduces the culture and builds it, helps to participate constructively in it and develop creatively. As a community has its own internal culture – its history, traditions, rituals, symbols, its values, patterns, and standards both formally declared and written down, as well as informally functioning, typical behaviours of the members of the school community, language and ways of communicating, problem solving, style of action, and atmosphere. This culture influences the environment of a given school, but also more broadly, on the outside, through the natural social interactions and program of action for the benefit of others. Therefore, it looks for answers differently, not only to the question of what value is, but also questions about what is valuable, how values exist, how to recognize them, and how they operate in the development of the individual and culture. The school thus plays a special role in the shaping of the individual, and so – in shaping the culture.

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Chrobak, S. (2017). The cultural identity of the Salesian school as the basis of education towards a valuable life. Pedagogical Forum, 7(2), 209–224. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2017.2.15

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