The Model Of The Family and Family Upbringing Propagated By The Local Press Of The Greater Poland Region In The Second Republic Of Poland
The Model Of The Family and Family Upbringing Propagated By The Local Press Of The Greater Poland Region In The Second Republic Of Poland

Summary/Abstract: In the Second Republic of Poland, local press played a major role in fulfilling the needs of the government administration, the local government, and political parties as well as the expectations of broad social circles, groups, and local communities; it addressed social needs and expectations by providing information about social, political, cultural, educational, moral, and economic life of the particular social groups. It constituted a means of propaganda and political agitation; it served to popularise the ideologies of political parties and it expressed the worldviews of particular local communities; its place in the regional economic life was important; its influence was pedagogical, and it took an active part in propagating education and promoting an interest in the region. It was a reflection of social relations and political and national divisions as well as an initiator of numerous cultural events. It recorded the image of the life of the inhabitants of cities and their surroundings. Its educational influence on the young generation consisted in suggesting models and forms of social activity, promoting certain ideologies, ideas on upbringing, models of behaviour, and forming and determining the attitudes and the activity of the local communities. Its role in Greater Poland (with the clearly defined ideological and cultural character of the region) was remarkable, because there the local press was essential in creating sociocultural life in small towns and in educating their inhabitants. The local press belonged to the group of periodicals that had a major educational influence and which determined the cultural character of small communities. In a number of cases the local periodicals served as official publications of local communities. They were a source of information on the life of the region and the town with its surroundings, they constituted a chronicle of local events, and they propagated a certain worldview and ideas on upbringing consistent with it. The local press had a substantial role in the education and upbringing in the community. It promoted a uniform, clearly defined stance (idea) of upbringing, typically in accordance with the Catholic Social Teaching and the ideology of National Democratic parties. The problems of social, civil, religious, moral, and family character were frequently discussed in the columns of the local press, “in the Catholic and national spirit”. The periodicals would firmly propagate the Catholic family model, certain principles of family life, and models of the family, upbringing, a wife-mother, a husband-father, children as well as the models of a good Polish woman, a mother, and a housewife, and the ideal of a good Polish man, a husband and a father, with their respective roles and duties.

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