Wojsko i szkoła – wzajemne relacje w latach sześćdziesiątych. Przyczynek do militaryzacji wychowania w PRL
The Military and the Schools – Mutual Relations in the 1960s. A Contribution to the Militarization of Education in the Polish People’s Republic

Summary/Abstract: Mutual contacts between the education system and the Polish People’s Army became more and more intense in the 1960s. An important context for this phenomenon was the army’s interest in creating a country defense system in which schools were to fulfill the responsible task of the initial preparation of future soldiers of compulsory military service and participants of general self-defense and civil defense. At the same time, the army was building its influence through, among other things, participating in the constru- ction of schools and naming them after military patrons, supporting specific educational institutions and shaping teachers’ attitudes to be favorable to the Armed Forces of the Polish People’s Republic. The period described above was also a time of more intensive development of teaching military (defense) preparation in schools, largely subordinated to the Ministry of Defense.

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