Education for ethnic minorities in Lower Silesia during the communist era. Selected Issues

Abstract

The article presents selected issues of minority education in Lower Silesia in the Polish People's Republic. This region after World War II not only Poles lived Jews, Ukrainians, Germans, Czechs, Greeks and Macedonians. This complex situation nationalities also had a significant impact on the organization of the education system in this area. It was not enough for him to arrange for children and young Polish, but there was a need to take account of all minorities residing here. The analysis has been subjected to territorial scope, range chronological, quantitative dimension, issues concerning the teaching staff, lack of textbooks for the education of non-Polish language teaching and the problems of the material base. The author tried to show the dynamics of change - in time, in space and taking into account ethnic diversity. In the text there were also reminders of basic laws governing education, and the institutions that dealt with education for minorities.