Między solidarnością a wykluczeniem. Nauczyciele jako grupa zawodowa w sytuacji kryzysu
Between Solidarity and Exclusion. Teachers as a Professional Group in a Situation of Crisis

Summary/Abstract: The author presents teachers as a professional group that has experienced serious crises over the past few years (the 2019 strike and the COVID-19 pandemic) that have had a significant impact on their integrity and evaluation by society. In these difficult situations, teachers have been faced with many challenges and difficult decisions, which have resulted in, among other things, a destabilisation of the teaching process, disunity and lack of solidarity within the professional group. They have also entailed a strong polarisation of society (including parents and students), who represented extreme views. The purpose of the undertaken study is to attempt to answer the question: Are teachers victims of the system, the pandemic or of themselves? The analyses referred to in the text prove that teachers are victims not only of the system, but also of the excessive expectations often placed on them. False generalisations (teachers perceived as oversensitive about themselves, despotic, shouty, infantile, intrusive, manifesting a lack of mutual respect) are not only detrimental to educators, but also contribute to creating barriers to interpersonal communication. Moreover, it turns out that in crisis situations that require “speaking with one voice,” teachers as a professional group do not quite pass the test of practising such an important value as solidarity.

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