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Edukacja wobec groźby wojny
Education against the threat of war

Author(s): Piotr Kowzan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: koordynacja; kooperacja; kolaboracja; wojna; nacjonalizm; neoliberalizm; coordination; cooperation; collaboration; war; nationalism; neoliberalism;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses types of political education worth developing in contemporary Polish schools and in other places dedicated to building human capacity to work together in a non-alienated way. The analysis is based on my own research from the area of learning in social movements. I analyze three orders ensuring social coordination (neoliberalism, nationalism, and militarism) in the context of the values they exclude: the common good, self-government and peace. The result of the work is a matrix assigning these counter-values, accordingly, to coordination, cooperation and collaboration. The matrix allows for identification of the specificity of some examples of social mobilization, as well as identification of gaps in teaching collective interaction skills. The results of the analysis can be used to operationalize the practices of resistance in terms of educational goals. They also put in a new light the problems of connections between and building up of ideologies hostile to schools, that is, neoliberalism, nationalism and militarism.

  • Issue Year: 9/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 24-42
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish