School failure and its interpretations
Journal Title: Kultura Pedagogiczna - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The author sketches the history of a longitudinal study on student failure in Poland conducted by a Polish educational sociologist, Zbigniew Kwieciński et al. Simultaneously, he provides a philosophical review of the study which took nearly three decades, starting in the early 1970s continuing through the fall of communism in Poland and the advent of liberal democracy. The findings of the longitudinal study are striking. They suggest that changes in the political system, in social and economic factors, in educational ideals and policies accompanied by different dominant philosophical paradigms, had no major effect in redressing school failure, or in reducing the numbers of socially excluded pupils. Having critically reviewed the research, its findings, philosophical interpretations, as well as the evolution of Kwieciński’s views, the author highlights the significance of the role of the teacher in the complex dynamics of educational practice. He argues a case for substantial teacher responsibility, and for greater moral responsibility for the student.
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Piotr Kostyło
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