School education in danger? The Polish and Lithuanian perspective of changes and the situation of school in Lithuania. A study of one event Cover Image

Szkolnictwo w stanie zagrożenia? Polska i litewska perspektywa zmian a sytuacja w szkole w Litwie. Studium jednego wydarzenia
School education in danger? The Polish and Lithuanian perspective of changes and the situation of school in Lithuania. A study of one event

Author(s): Anna Szafrańska, Gražina Čiuladienė
Subject(s): School education, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: educational system; minority education; Polish education in Lithuania; conflict; state of emergency;

Summary/Abstract: Representatives of every minority want their rights to be respected in the state in which they live and of which they are citizens. The problems related to education for national minorities are among the most complicated and arguable. Political controversies and disputes in magazine columns do not always translate into good relations in the culturally diverse environment. The text is aimed to present the situation related to the conflict in one of the schools in Lithuania, which began (as a kind of prelude) at the end of 2021 and developed in 2022. Our assumption was to analyze the described situation from three perspectives presented in: the Polish press in the context of some actions taken by the government and their effects, as well as the way of describing them; an analogical presentation of the Lithuanian perspective and the stakeholders themselves (including the headmaster of the school where the described situation took place). For a better understanding of the context of the described analyses, the text begins with a brief description of the current legal status, the educational network and its scope.

  • Issue Year: 22/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 162-175
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish