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The Status of Physical Education in Cypriot Schools

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Christodoulou D.

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

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2010

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vol. 50

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issue 1

110-117

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A few years ago, comparative research was conducted in thirty-five countries in order to discover the innovative and stimulating aspects of physical education (PE) found all over the world. Cyprus was not included in that special study. The present and future position of PE is a crucial and critical issue in Cyprus. Therefore the author of this paper has carried out an investigation with the aim of revealing the status of PE in the Cypriot educational system and comparing it with other countries. This paper was written on the basis of that research. The Cypriot investigation found in this paper uses the same concept and methods as were utilised in the aforementioned cross-cultural study; the results are presented according to similar dimensions. The data was collected by documentary analysis and in-depth interviews. The results indicate that the status of PE in Cyprus is low and there are urgent problems that need to be seriously considered by the authorities of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Efforts have already been made by decision-makers to promote the development of a new curriculum, be introduced in future school years.

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Formy zatrudniania nauczycieli w dobie dynamicznych zmian w strukturze polskiego szkolnictwa

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Skwarek P.

Zamojskie Studia i Materiały – Seria Pedagogika

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2012

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vol. 14

109-115

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In this article the author briefly presents the forms of employment of teachers in Poland. The issues are presented in the context of system changes concerning the development of private education and a partial departure from the Teachers’ Charter as the basic act regulating the forms of employment of teachers.

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Analiza i ocena reformy edukacji w Polsce w opinii nauczycieli

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Roman K.

Społeczeństwo i Edukacja. Międzynarodowe Studia Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 2(25)

131-140

EN

Education is an important element that cannot be neglected or omitted in a conscious and responsible society. This is a prerequisite for thinking about the country’s development in the economic and social spheres. The educational system is subject to frequent changes and turmoil in Poland, which are related to politicians’ decisions. At present, the Polish educational system introduces a significant reform. The purpose of this article is to analyze the responses of the surveyed teachers who participated in the study on the predicted effects of the changes. The publication also contains a number of postulates whose introduction may contribute to a significant improvement of the education system in Poland.

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Requiem for junior high school. Case study - lower secondary school exam 2012

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Piotrowski M.

Studia z Teorii Wychowania

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2020

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vol. XI(4(33))

173-191

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The article has critically assessed the information sent to the public, including teachers, on the results of external examinations contained in the Central Examination Board (CEB) reports. Basing on the analysis of two sources of information decoded from the CEB reports and the analysis of the database containing the results of examinations, 93% of lower secondary school students, it has been showed that about half of the population "failed" the lower secondary school exam in science and mathematics. Therefore they should not continue their high school education. The analysis of data decoded from the CEB report is in line with the results obtained from 93% of students. Therefore, it is advisable to conduct similar analyzes of contemporary CEB reports on students achievement after the new primary school which is operating in the new education system after liquidation of junior high schools.

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Literacy Change as a Result of the Education Reform: Comparison Among the Post-Soviet Countries

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Dudaitė J.

The New Educational Review

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2018

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vol. 54

17-28

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In 1989 – 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was an auspicious moment for structural changes in education systems in the new independent countries, which had been under control of the Soviet government for a long time. About three decades have passed since the beginning of the education reforms in the post-Soviet countries and several generations who studied within the framework of the reformed systems starting from the first grade have already grown up. Therefore, it is relevant to estimate the results of the reforms. One of the possible measures for estimating the results of the education system or education reform is the change in population literacy within certain education systems. The purpose of the article is to compare the results of education reforms of the post-Soviet countries based on the population literacy considered as a result of former learning. The data of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) organised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are used for literacy comparison. The OECD PIAAC survey databases of Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia were used for comparison of the results of the reforms implemented in the post-Soviet countries. Data analysis showed that at the lower and upper secondary education levels, the most positive results of the education reform were observed in Lithuania, while in Russia, the results were negative.

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Dylematy kształcenia polonistycznego, czyli czego nas uczą pierwsze lata reformy

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Janus‑Sitarz A.

Z Teorii i Praktyki Dydaktycznej Języka Polskiego

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2020

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vol. 29

175-186

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The review article describes the effects of the hastily implemented reform of school education. Its effects were monitored by researchers whose observations appeared in the volume Dilemmas of Polish Studies in the reformed primary school edited by Zofia Budrewicz and Danuta Łazarska, published as part of the Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracovienesis. Authors from many academic centres address the topics of overcrowded high schools (the socalled effect of the double year), students overloaded with learning, return of rote learning, as well as the process of full centralisation in education management (no teachers’ participation in preparing reforms), or politicised programme changes and haste. The volume contains many texts that critically analyse the new core curriculum in the field of Polish language education. Repeated allegations include: anachronism, lack of autonomy in the choice of texts, deprivation of references to modern times, dominance of theoretical terminology, marginalisation of communication practice, etc. In addition, some of the dissertations contained in the publication are based on empirical research and examples of so-called good educational practices.

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Education reform and inequality: fifteen years of new lower secondary schools in Poland

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Sawiński Z.

Edukacja

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2017

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issue 2(2017)

146–163

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Inequalities in education are so deeply embedded in social stratification that even far-reaching school reforms are not able to weaken the influence of social origin on school achievements. The aim of this article is to verify whether the education reform, which in Poland established a new type of 3-year lower secondary school (gimnazjum), simultaneously equalised the chances of students from different social backgrounds at the transition from lower to upper secondary school. All hypotheses were tested using PISA data from the years 2000–2012, which covered the period before and after school reform in Poland. In case of the first hypothesis, which concerned changes in the impact of social origin on student’s performance in the last year of the new schools, i.e. a year before transition to upper secondary school, PISA data clearly demonstrated that after the reform, there was no significant decrease in correlations between socio-economic status of students and their results in three PISA domains: mathematics, reading and science. In case of the second hypothesis, which was directly focused on social selections to upper secondary schools, PISA data did not confirm that anything changed in this respect after the reform. The third hypotheses addresses the problem of the growing differences among schools in terms of their performance. During the fifteen years since the reform, new schools started to diversify more and more, especially in large cities. PISA demonstrates, however, that this diversification did not perpetuate social inequalities, but rather resulted from competition among schools in the quality of instruction. The latter result was supported by PISA data from eight European countries where students, as in Poland, attend schools which are not divided into tracks. Between 2003 and 2012, growing differences among schools was observed in most of these countries, but in none of them was it accompanied by growing inequalities in education.

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Countryís Competitiveness and Sustainability in the Context of the Higher Education System Reforms

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Jermolajeva E., Aleksejeva L.

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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2013

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vol. 15

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issue 1

73-83

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The accumulation of knowledge and its use have become important factors that promote economic development as they contribute to a countryís competitiveness in the global economy. The basic significance of research is obtained by defining new approaches in the organisation, function and efficiency of the higher education system (HES) by emphasising its qualitative aspects. The aim of the article is to describe the influence of education reform on economic competitiveness, paying a special attention to analysing and evaluating international experiences from an interdisciplinary perspective, including economics, pedagogy, etc. Quantitative indicators are used to characterise specific features of the HES and the interaction of this system in the overall context of state development. Some aspects of the Latvian HES are also analysed. The economic activity of inhabitants often directly depends on their level of education. In order to reorganise the Latvian HES and increase its competitiveness and efficiency, thus ensuring quality and availability, the Latvian education system must define a middle-term (4ñ5 years) and long-term (10ñ15 years) development plan that is coordinated with national economic development.

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ENRIQUE PEÑA NIETO’S EDUCATION REFORM IN THE WAITING ROOM

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Wątróbka M. M., Kopcewicz G., Olszanecka N., Urbański D., Piechowiak-Lamparska J., Bryc A., Bojarczyk B., Jorgensen F. A. E., Niedziołka D., Pacześniak A., Potorski R., Wincławska M., Włodkowska-Bagan A., Jeran A., Mol A., Solsbery A., Dąbrowska I., Głodkowski M., Kopcewicz G., Olszanecka N., Piechowiak-Lamparska J.

The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies

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2017

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issue 2

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The analysis provided in this article aims to explain and disclose the processes that have influenced the education system in Mexico since the Aztec Empire, until the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto. One of the issues presented in this paper is relation established by political party PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) who rules Mexico for more than 70 years and institutions responsible for education, leading to centralization. The consequence of these processes is the attempt to introduce education reform by the government Enrique Peña Nieto. Without a doubt, the most important question asked in this article is „why education reform causes so many emotions among the teachers, especially members of the union and their associating organizations?”.

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Challenges To The Implementation Of Institutional Reform In The Lithuanian General Education System

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Pranevičienė B., Margevičiūtė A.

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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2015

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vol. 8

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issue 1

106-138

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The educational system of Lithuania has undergone transformation conditioned by the radical change of the political situation in the region after the restoration of independence on March 11, 1990. The new educational system was gradually developed, changing and denying the former Soviet educational framework. The main goal of the new educational system is to provide education compatible with the newly applicable international standards and create an effective network of schools. The article aims to present an overview of the reform of the institutional system of general education of Lithuania that began in 1988 and was to be completed in September 2015; however, the completion of the reform was recently postponed until September 2017. The article also reviews key challenges to the reform implementation and discusses the compatibility of the reform with societal expectations and standards of international educational law.

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Lekcja religii – odpowiedzialna praca na rzecz polskiej szkoły i Kościoła

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Tomasik P.

Studia Pastoralne

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2017

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vol. 13

74-86

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The article refers to the concept of force in Poland lessons of religion, which is neither catechesis, although the work of catechesis in part, or religious studies lesson, though knowledge about religion provides. It tries to answer the following questions: What are the basic determinants of the concept of school religion classes? What is the concept of school religion classes in Poland? What are the opportunities and threats of this concept of religion classes?

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Kaniewski J.

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2019

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vol. 10

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issue 285

17-27

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My statement is about different concepts of Polish language and literature, which stem from official educational documents and from discussions between experts in the field. My analysis Szkolna polonistyka w poszukiwaniu modelu wiedzy przedmiotowej [27] focuses mostly on the last three education reforms (core curricula from 1999, 2008 and 2017) and points out a very apparent change in the proposed positioning of a student against knowledge (from subject orientation in 1999 to indisputable dominance of subject focus in the last core curriculum).

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Edukacja dla innowacji (Czy tylko wybrani skazani są na sukces innowacyjny?)

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Okoń-Horodyńska E.

Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe

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2008

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issue 1(31)

34-54

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In the case of Poland, the idea of education which teaches to live and operate in a European and global setting must be viewed in the context of trends in education (signalled in European Commission and OECD reports) and of global challenges. European and global experience suggests that a new priority in education is to embed innovation as a key factor that determines competitiveness of enterprises, economies and societies. Hence, the author attempts to assess whether or not the Polish education system is ready to face this challenge. She also seeks specific attributes for changes in education methods and formulates specific programming suggestions for education that addresses the need for technological innovation. Thus, the paper presents an in-house discussion of a kind, aiming to demonstrate inadequacies of the current education system in the context of the needs to create, manage and use innovation, since innovation is often the key to international success. On question that arises is whether all countries should rely on innovation for growth or whether success in this area is only available for ‘the chosen few’.

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Kształcenie umożliwiające zdobycie umiejętności funkcjonowania w układach europejskim i globalnym, w polskim przypadku musi być rozpatrywane zarówno na tle tendencji w kształceniu (zasygnalizowanych w raportach Komisji Europejskiej oraz OECD), jak i wyzwań globalnych. Na podstawie studiów doświadczeń europejskich i światowych można stwierdzić, iż priorytetem w kształceniu staje się umiejętność kreowania innowacji jako podstawowego czynnika określającego poziom konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstw, gospodarki i społeczeństwa. Dlatego też autorka koncentruje uwagę na próbie odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy polski system edukacji jest do tego zadania przygotowany oraz na poszukiwaniu wyznaczników zmian sposobów kształcenia, a także sformułowaniu propozycji programowych kształcenia na potrzeby rozwoju innowacji technologicznych. Przedmiotem artykułu jest zatem swoista wewnętrzna dyskusja mająca na celu wykazanie nieadekwatności obecnego systemu edukacji do potrzeb kreowania, zarządzania i spożytkowania innowacji, będących dla wielu kluczem do osiągnięcia sukcesu w planie międzynarodowym. Pytanie, czy wszystkie kraje powinny opierać rozwój na innowacyjności, czy w tej dziedzinie tylko wybrani skazani są na sukces?

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Sukcesy i porażki reformy edukacji

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Zahorska M.

Przegląd Socjologiczny

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2009

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vol. 58

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issue 3

119-142

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Przeprowadzona w 1989 roku reforma edukacji miała bardzo ambitne cele: podniesienie jakości szkół, wyrównanie szans edukacyjnych – zwłaszcza dzieci wiejskich, upowszechnienie wykształcenia średniego i wyższego. Dla realizacji tych celów zmieniono ogromnie wiele w systemie edukacyjnym: ustrój szkolny poprzez powołanie gimnazjów, sposób zarządzania szkołami – poszerzając kompetencje JST, finansowanie szkół – wprowadzając zasadę „pieniądz idzie za uczniem”, programy szkolne, zasady oceniania, drogi awansu nauczycieli, reguły kierujące funkcjonowaniem szkoły. Ważną społeczną konsekwencją reformy miało być zwiększenie szans edukacyjnych młodzieży ze środowisk o niskim kapitale kulturowym. Dla przedstawicieli teorii krytycznych, zwłaszcza reprezentantów Nowej Socjologii Edukacji (B. Bernstein, M. Young, N. Keddie i inni) zmiany w organizacji szkół nie są w stanie zrekompensować różnic społecznych. Obserwując rezultaty reformy przy okazji jej dziesiątej już rocznicy widzimy, że pomimo wielu spektakularnych sukcesów: zwiększenie upowszechnienia szkół średnich i wyższych, polepszenia rezultatów polskich uczniów w międzynarodowych testach PISA – społecznych nierówności edukacyjnych nie ograniczono. Przybierają one obecnie inne formy i lokują się w innych segmentach systemu szkolnego. Gimnazja nie wyrównują poziomu nauczania uczniów, ale utrwalają, a nawet powiększają różnice ze szkół podstawowych, umasowione szkoły średnie są ogromnie zróżnicowane pod względem poziomu, podobnie jak szkoły wyższe. Nadal więc uczniowie wywodzący się z „dobrych” rodzin mają dużo większe szanse trafienia do dobrych szkół gimnazjalnych, średnich i na studia dające lepsze możliwości na rynku pracy, niż ich rówieśnicy o „gorszym” pochodzeniu.

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The education reform carried out in 1989 had very ambitious goals: improving the quality of schools, popularizing secondary and Higher Education as well as providing equal educational opportunities, especially those for rural children,. In order to achieve those goals, much has been changed in the education system: the school structure, by creating junior high schools; the process of school management, by extending the LGU competence; financing schools – by applying the rule “Money follows the student”; school programs; grading systems; career paths for teachers and rules of school operation. An important social consequence of the reform was intended to be improving the opportunities available to young people with low cultural capital. In the opinion of the representatives of critical theories, especially those representing the New Sociology of Education (B. Bernstein, M. Young, N. Keddie and colleagues), changes in school organisation cannot compensate for social differences. When observing the results of the reform on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, we can see that in spite of many spectacular successes such as popularizing secondary and Higher Education as well as improving the results of Polish students in the international PISA tests, the social educational inequalities have not been limited; They currently take other forms and are found in other segments of the school system. Junior high schools do not even out the teaching level, but preserve and even increase differences resulting from primary schools; the majority of high schools are extremely diverse in terms of level, and so are the colleges. Therefore, students from “good” families still have much a greater chance of getting to good junior high schools and high schools, as well as to colleges that give better prospects on the labour market, than their peers with a “worse” family background.

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Between Scylla and Charybdis? An Attempt to Resolve the Problems Caused by the New Matura and Teacher Training Programmes in Poland.

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Shaw A.

Kultura i Polityka

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2009

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issue 5

86-96

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In our day and age it is perhaps odd that some students, after 7 years of English, profess to being elementary learners of a language: The Council of Europe suggests that 240 hours of study is enough to progress from A1 to B1. When questioned, most students give in justification the plea ‘but I didn’t learn anything at High School’. But is this really the case? Are high schools really that bad? In 2005 the eclectically translated Supreme Chamber for Control (NIK) conducted an audit of the tuition of Modern Foreign Languages in Poland which had some startling results. Almost half of the schools audited (49.3%) were found to be employing teachers who did not meet the educational and linguistic standards set by the auditor and 85% of institutions were guilty of some kind of irregularity. Even basic issues such as materials were found to be wanting, with 20% using a handbook that was unacceptable or unsuitable for the group. Overall, only 1 in every 7 schools met the requirements set by the auditors. Furthermore, the imminent winding down of the Teacher Training College system in Poland threatens to leave the education system with a greatly reduced pool of potential staff and heavily reliant on the creaking system of University English departments for its teachers. To compound matters, the current system, whilst seemingly demanding and thorough, is wholly inadequate preparation for future teachers. By way of an example, at present it is enough to complete 144 hours of teaching practice in order to become a teacher in high school, but this seemingly impressive figure is highly misleading, since in actual fact it only requires a minimum of 20 hours of independent teaching and one course in methodology – completely inadequate by contemporary European standards. In the UK, for example, trainee teachers complete 6 hours of real teaching practice per week during their course – and this only allows them to attain ‘Qualified Teacher Status’, a full year of work being required before one becomes a true teacher. As a disclaimer, perhaps the best teachers I have met are Polish state school teachers, and ‘Native Speakers’ perhaps the most overrated; but clearly, to paraphrase the Bard, something is rotten in the state of Poland. Where does this problem stem from, and what are the implications for educational policy makers? This paper will address these issues, examine some alternatives and put forward some tentative suggestions and ideas for future discussion.

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W naszych czasach wydaje się dziwne, kiedy studenci po siedmiu latach nauki języka angielskiego przyznają się do tego, że znają angielski jedynie na poziomie podstawowym, zwłaszcza że według Rady Europy wystarczy 240 godzin nauki, aby przejść z poziomu A1 na B1. Kiedy pyta się ich, dlaczego tak słabo znają angielski, często tłumaczą: „tak naprawdę nie nauczyłem się niczego w szkole średniej”. Czy naprawdę tak jest? Czy szkoły średnie są na takim niskim poziomie? W 2005 roku Najwyższa Izba Kontroli prowadziła audyt poziomu nauczania języków obcych w polskich szkołach. Wyniki były zaskakujące. Okazało się, że prawie połowa szkół (49,3%), w których przeprowadzono audyt, zatrudnia nauczycieli niespełniających ministerialnych i lingwistycznych wymogów, założonych przez audytorów. Oprócz tego aż 85% instytucji nie w pełni spełniła ministerialne wymogi. Nawet w sprawach najbardziej podstawowych również były braki: 20% szkół korzystało z nieodpowiednich podręczników. W sumie tylko jedna z siedmiu szkół spełniła ministerialne wymogi. Poza tym zapowiadane zamykanie kolegiów nauczycielskich najprawdopodobniej będzie skutkowało tym, że zapotrzebowanie na nauczycieli nie będzie zrealizowane i zostawi kształcenie przyszłych anglistów w niepewnych rękach wydziałów filologii angielskiej. Sprawa jest jeszcze bardziej skomplikowana, ponieważ obecny system kształcenia anglistów, choć wymagający i dokładny, nie zapewnia odpowiedniego przygotowania przyszłych nauczycieli. Na przykład obecnie wystarczy zrealizować jedynie 144 godzin praktyki, aby być nauczycielem w szkole średniej, co może wyglądać imponująco, ale jest mylące, gdyż jedynie 20 godzin to samodzielnie prowadzone lekcje i jeden kurs z metodologii, co jest kompletnie niezgodne ze standardami europejskimi. W Wielkiej Brytanii, na przykład, praktykanci muszą zrealizować sześć godzin dydaktycznych tygodniowo, co pozwala im uzyskać „status wykwalifikowanego nauczyciela”. Aby zostać samodzielnym nauczycielem, muszą jeszcze pracować jeszcze rok. Nie zmienia to faktu, że najlepsi nauczyciele, jakich kiedykolwiek poznałem, to angliści w szkołach państwowych i „native speakerzy”, choć ci ostatni najbardziej przecenieni. Skąd się bierze ten problem i jakie są jego konsekwencje dla tych, którzy tworzą prawa? W niniejszym artykule postaram się opowiedzieć na te pytania i sformułować sugestie przydatne w dalszej dyskusji na ten temat.

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The Status of Physical Education in Cypriot Schools

Formy zatrudniania nauczycieli w dobie dynamicznych zmian w strukturze polskiego szkolnictwa

Analiza i ocena reformy edukacji w Polsce w opinii nauczycieli

Requiem for junior high school. Case study - lower secondary school exam 2012

Literacy Change as a Result of the Education Reform: Comparison Among the Post-Soviet Countries

Dylematy kształcenia polonistycznego, czyli czego nas uczą pierwsze lata reformy

Education reform and inequality: fifteen years of new lower secondary schools in Poland

Countryís Competitiveness and Sustainability in the Context of the Higher Education System Reforms

ENRIQUE PEÑA NIETO’S EDUCATION REFORM IN THE WAITING ROOM

Challenges To The Implementation Of Institutional Reform In The Lithuanian General Education System

Lekcja religii – odpowiedzialna praca na rzecz polskiej szkoły i Kościoła

Reforma szkolna z roku 2016 – troska o ucznia czy innowacja na zamówienie polityczne

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Edukacja dla innowacji (Czy tylko wybrani skazani są na sukces innowacyjny?)

Sukcesy i porażki reformy edukacji

Between Scylla and Charybdis? An Attempt to Resolve the Problems Caused by the New Matura and Teacher Training Programmes in Poland.