European? National? The identity of teachers-to-be examined fi fteen years after Poland joined the European Union

• Authors: Gabowski, Adam

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines the identity of the youngest Polish adults intending to be school and pre-school educators. As the examination is carried out fi fteen years after Poland joined the European Union, the respondents have spent nearly all their lives within the borders of the united Europe. The question, therefore, is how this fact has affected their identity. The identity is represented as their personal feeling/conviction of being citizens of the United Europe (and of Poland). The results demonstrate that though their conviction of being citizens of Europe, even if it is reasonably strong, is not as intensive as that of being citizens of Poland (despite the experimental control of two situational factors that might potentially affect the participants’ responses), their identity could be classifi ed as Polish-European of the positive-sum nature. That is, the young people’s Polish and European identities seem by no means to be in confl ict or at each other’s expense. This offers an optimistic view as far as their future profession of educating next generations is concerned.

Keywords

EN

identity; educators-to-be; citizenship; Europe; Poland

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 583(8)
• Pages: 52-65

Dates

published

2019-11-17

Contributors

author

Gabowski, Adam

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.5757