Podręczniki szkolne do nauczania religii jako przedmiot badań socjologicznych – rola jakościowej analizy treści
School Textbooks to Teaching Religion as a Subject of Sociological Inquiry – the Role of Qualitative Content Analysis

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The scientific goal of the article is to analyze the studies of textbooks for teaching religion in terms of used methodology, and to understand the nature of the sociological content analysis in the perspective of teaching materials used in religious education. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The problem and research methods are based on the paradigm of constructionism, which describes the social reality as a “network of meanings.” The analysis of the textbooks studies is based on content analysis of research results and research problem concerns the understanding of the specifics of this research technique with respect to the religious educational materials. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The process of reasoning runs from the outline of the methodological assumptions, definition of the specificity of school textbooks, the analysis of the religious education textbooks studies, to the presentation of the specifics of the content analysis focused on coding and constant comparison procedures. RESEARCH RESULTS: The results of scientific analysis boils down to the assertion of the superficial treatment of the content analysis of school textbooks to religious education and the possibilities of improving this research technique. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The conclusions, innovations, and recommendations focus on the formulation of methodological postulates: a deeper, semantic and sociological approach to content analysis of religious education textbooks, which can contribute to the empirical-based understanding of the social meaning of religion.

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