Szkolenia i kontrole. Realia pracy nauczycieli szkół średnich ogólnokształcących w latach pięćdziesiątych i sześćdziesiątych na przykładzie województwa katowickiego
Training and Controls. The Reality of the Work of General Secondary School Teachers in the 1950s and 1960s in the Example of the Katowice Province

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the reality of the work of general secondary school teachers in “peo- ple’s” Poland. At that time, school daily life was largely filled with training and inspections. A massive campaign of ideological training of teachers began from the 1949/1950 school year, introducing new curricula based entirely on the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. During these courses, educators were to familiarize themselves with the political priorities of the authorities and their educational strategy, and then put the acquired knowledge and skills into practice in their schools. A period of hospitalization, visitation, indoctrination and surveillance of teachers began. The text was written on the basis of an analysis of histori- cal sources, primarily archival materials and memoirs supplemented by literature on the subject. The author presents the methods and means used by the authorities to achieve success and create a “new man” embedding them in examples of investigative cases con- ducted against teachers of the Katowice Province in the 1950s and 1960s.

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