Podręczniki szkolne Polskiej Macierzy Zagranicą a edukacja i wychowanie dzieci polskich na obczyźnie
Textbooks of Polska Macierz Szkolna Zagranicą and the process of upbringing and education of Polish children abroad

Summary/Abstract: Children’s education and upbringing are one of the most significant tasks facing parents, school and widely understood social environment. This task becomes complicated especially in the circumstances of multiculturalism arousing in the situation of living abroad. Due to migrations children and the youth are brought up in the environment of different cultural patterns and lifestyles mixing together. Not always domestic patterns are prioritized – various institutions of the Polish diaspora, especially educational organization called Polska Macierz Szkolna Zagranicą, take care of reminding Polish emigrants’ families about Polish values and culture. Polska Macierz Szkolna Zagranicą is one of numerous Polish organizations working in Great Britain. As one the oldest institutions of the Polish diaspora, it contributes above all to developing Polish spirit in succeeding generations of Polish emigrants. Its activities are chiefly connected to founding and maintaining Szkoły Polskie (Polish Schools) in which Polish emigrants’ children have been learning Polish language, history and geography for above 60 years. One of the most important aspects of the organization’s activities is releasing schoolbooks for students of Szkoły Polonijne (The Polish Disapora’s Schools) all over the world. Contents of the books refer to Polish values and culture and in this way appeal to students of Szkoły Polonijne. The schoolbooks contain texts on many significant issues, such as building self-identity, tolerance, respect to past generations’ achievements, civic attitude, the role of Polish language in Polish emigrants’ lives, Polish holiday traditions and many more. In this way they play unquestionable role in education and upbringing of subsequent generations of Polish children abroad. The role of the organization’s textbooks remains unparalleled.

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