UCHYLANIE SIĘ OD OBOWIĄZKU SZKOLNEGO PRZEZ SPOŁECZNOŚĆ POLSKĄ PRUS ZACHODNICH W PRZEDEDNIU KULTURKAMPFU W POGLĄDACH REDAKCJI CZASOPISMA KATOLICKIEGO „PIELGRZYM”
EVASION OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION BY THE POLISH COMMUNITY OF WEST PRUSSIA ON THE EVE OF KULTURKAMPF IN THE VIEWS OF THE EDITORS OF THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE PIELGRZYM (PILGRIM)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of Polish community avoiding compulsory schooling for children in West Prussia on the eve of Kulturkampf and attempts to exert influence on this community through the Pielgrzym magazine, which was one of the most opinion-forming Polish magazines in the studied region. The subject of the analyzes were press articles published in the journal in the years 1869–1870, in which the editors of Pielgrzym made a critical analysis of the attitudes of the Polish community and was creating a positive image of the Prussian folk school. The aim of the research was to get to know the views presented in the pages of Pielgrzym to the avoidance of a part of Polish parents from sending their children to the indicated type of schools and to present the attempts of educational influence with the use of the aforementioned magazine to change anti-school attitudes presented by some Polish parents. The article presents the views of Pielgrzym in relation to the educational, didactic and pedeutological aspects of the school’s work, recommendations for working with children evading compulsory education were also presented.

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