Provisional (Substitute-Dispersive) Status of Ethics in the Polish Educational System
Provisional (Substitute-Dispersive) Status of Ethics in the Polish Educational System

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the actual – not only formal, but also factual – location of ethics as a school subject in the supervisory, managerial and organisational structure of the Polish education system. The research aim of the text is to argue – based on the domestic and foreign scientific literature, opinion-forming publications, and the author’s own work – that ethics is for some reason the only subject in the Polish education system whose rachitic and nebulous status can be described as institutional dispersion, or in other words, as dispersive (in)presence. The methodological instrumentarium of my paper consists of complementary methods of analysis and synthesis of sources and data, the method of comparative analysis, the method of contextual interpretation, the constructivist method and the method of exemplification. The line of argumentation of the article leads from demonstrating and analysing the location of ethics in the legal and education systems in force in Poland, with its consequences for the “ordopractic” functioning of ethics in the realities of Polish schools. In the next step, I discuss the issue of asynchronously differentiating the ethical domain in the education system, which causes it to be parcelled out and disintegrated between three uncoordinated domains: the subject matter, occasional ethical content, moral education and ethics lessons proper. The main line of argumentation of the article is the pivotal nature of ethics in Polish education. Its most serious consequence is its merely ersatz status, involving not only law and school usus, but also public perception.

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