„Wychowanie państwowe” w prywatnych niemieckich szkołach powszechnych południowo-zachodniej Wielkopolski w latach trzydziestych XX wieku

• Authors: Adrian Gendera

Title variants

EN

‘State education’ in German private primary schools in south-western Greater Poland in the 1930s

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the implementation of Józef Piłsudski’s Sanation model of ‘state education’ in private primary schools with German as a medium of instruction, which in the Second Polish Republic in the 1930s functioned in south-western Greater Poland. It was a border area, critical for national security, culturally and historically bound by Polish–German relations. The schools belonged to individual lay people, United Evangelical Church communities or associations of the German national minority. The students, with few exceptions, belonged to the Lutheran Church. Audit reports filed by Polish school inspectorates prove that teaching, ie performance of teachers’ duties, was mainly influenced by current politics and Polish–German relations. Increased political tension in the second half of the 1930s resulted in a decline, though not universal, of ‘state education’, neglect of teaching the Polish language, history and geography, absence of Poland’s White Eagle emblem, separatist tendencies among the minority and a rise in ethnic hostility. Poor training of German teachers for teaching the Polish language was also revealed. Evangelical schools displayed worse results than others, which confirms the point advanced in historiography about the United Evangelical Church’s aversion to Poland.

Keywords

PL

wychowanie państwowe; niemiecka mniejszość narodowa; Wielkopolska; Kościół ewangelicko-unijny

EN

state education; German national minority; Greater Poland; United Evangelical Church

• Publisher: Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 56
• Pages: 27-42

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Adrian Gendera

• Wydział Nauk Historycznych i Pedagogicznych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

• https://orcid.org/000000029796576X

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2076866