Polskie szkoły prywatne w Wielkiej Brytanii po 1947 r. w świetle doniesień prasowych
Journal Title: Przegląd Historyczno-Oświatowy - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The article addresses the Polish education in the United Kingdom after the Second World War to the present day as seen through the prism of emigration press reports. It focuses on the most important educational institutions of the “steadfast” generation and on the problems of Polish emigrants’ Saturday schools in the EU era. The methodology applied to the study was content analysis of the magazines “Polish Daily and Soldier’s Daily”, “White Eagle” and “New Time”. Poles of the "steadfast" generation even during the Second World War, established military schools in a collaborative effort and for the following decades have maintained paid, private native schools at different education levels – from common, through secondary to higher education faculties, firstly created by British universities, then as independent institutions. After Polish accession to the European Union in 2004, the actions taken in the field of Polish schools abroad became of particular importance, as many Polish children attend British schools. Polish emigration is challenged to keep them for their nation, and make them feel the need to identify with Polish culture. Conferences organised in London revealed a significant deficiency of the Polish schools teaching native subjects in the new and old Polish communities, the lack of a coherent curriculum, as well as a general operating policy for these schools, lack of textbooks, lack of professional help in the process of establishment and administration of these institutions by teachers educated in Poland who tied up their lives with Great Britain and the bilingualism problem related to the second generation of the newest migrants. Since the British government legally declared Polish as a foreign language which can be taken at the secondary school graduation exam, Polish Saturday schools have been becoming increasingly popular among our countrymen.
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Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk
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- DOI 10.17460/2015.1_2.09
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