Obrachunki oświatowe. Od ofensywy ideologicznej w 1944 do kapitulacji w latach 80.

Abstract

After 1989 in Poland, the only area of social life which did not experience major shock and rapid change was the Polish educational system. The new authorities, busy carrying out economic and then social reforms, did not push rapid curriculum, organizational and staff changes as they did not want to open a new field of social conflict. After 1944, the authorities in Poland treated education as a tool of their rule. The educational system was used to control the social structure as part of the policy known as the „equalization of social opportunities”. The authorities made Marxism-Leninism the basis of the great social reconstruction program both in its economic and social assumptions and its outlook. Out of the 14 ministers of education during the communist period, 5 had the titles of professors in various specialties, and all were the party activists. Matters of education were the subject of disputes and decisions of the following Communist Party congresses, Central Committee plenary sessions as well as Central Committee Department of Science and Education. The resulting projects were then sent to the Bureau of the Government, and then to the Parliament, which usually passed the relevant bills unanimously Ideological pressure diminished in the school from the early 1980s as a result of an increasing conflict between the authorities and the society. Concern about an inadequate educational impact of school was one of the conclusions in the last report on the state of education in the communist Poland. On the other hand, raising the question about the educational success of school is the question of who in Poland led to the democratic political transformations.