%0 Journal Article %T Developing the Method of Narrative in the Religious Education of Children in the Views of Polish Pedagogues %A Surma, Barbara %J Polish Pedagogical Thought %V III (2017) %R 10.4467/24504564PMP.17.010.7033 %N Issue 3 %P 163-174 %K religious education, narrative, storytelling, verbal methods, observational method %@ 2450-4572 %D 2017 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/polska-mysl-pedagogiczna/article/rozwoj-metody-narracji-w-wychowaniu-religijnym-dzieci-w-pogladach-polskich-pedagogow %X The aim of the article is to present the development of the contemporary understanding of the modern narrative in religious education and in the gradual transition from stories and narratives to biographical narratives and those based on tradition. After first examining such aspects of the contemporary understanding of narrative as the catechetical method, they are then compared with the proposals of Fr. Zygmunt Bielawski (1877–1939) and Sr. Barbara Żulińska, CR (1881–1962).