THE ISSUE OF OLD AGE IN CURRICULUM GUIDELINES FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

The article presents the curriculum content related to old age included in the curriculum guidelines for Roman Catholic religious education in schools in Poland. The study is based on two documents that are currently in force: “Core Curriculum of the Roman Catholic Catechesis in Poland”, the text of which was adopted by the Polish Episcopal Conference on 8 March 2010, and the “Syllabus of the Roman Catholic Religious Education in Kindergartens and Schools”, adopted at the meeting of the Commission for Catholic Education of the Polish Episcopal Conference on 9 June 2010. Based on the analysis of the above-mentioned documents, issues concerning old age presented in detail have been proposed.