Comparative research conducted in European countries in the last ten years has had a special focus on the processes of marketisation in education and on building relationships between the school and the labour market. This area also arouses the interest of education politicians by setting the direction of educational reforms. The nature of the connections between and the process of transition from school to the labour market is the subject of many comparative studies in the German-language literature (See Baethge, Solga&Wieck, 2007). On the example of Germany - a federal country with sixteen different education systems (Nowosad, 2013, p. 89) - learning solutions focused on strengthening cooperation between the school and the labour market creates the opportunity to show the multifaceted nature of this phenomenon. An analysis of German experiences may result in the adaptation of foreign pedagogical achievements on the ground of native activities, and the results obtained can be an impulse to remove barriers and irregularities in the functioning of analyzed reality.
The social and political changes that started in Poland after 1989 led to the opening up of universities and in a short time led to a signifi cant increase of the number of students. According to offi cial data, schooling rate of higher education in Poland exceeded 50%. Unlimited access to higher education also had negative consequences. It resulted in a signifi cant increase of unemployment among the holders of academic degrees, decrease of their value in the labor market and lowering of the quality of higher education. Especially negative phenomena occurred in the social sphere. Employment and the opportunity to succeed in life no longer depend on the qualifi cations as evidenced by diplomas. Their place was taken by friends, informal business arrangements, family and social relationships. Obtaining a job and the mechanisms of life promotion have lost their transparent nature and were marked by pathology.
The work is devoted to the analysis of the Florian Znaniecki’s idea of the relationships between two systems of values – the social one and the economic one. The presented analysis focuses on the Znaniecki’s theses in the reference to the current market approach to education.
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