"Ruch uniwersytetów ludowych" w Drgiej Rzeczpospolitej (1918-1939)
"Movements of Folk Universities" in the II Republic of Poland (1918-1939)

Summary/Abstract: The articel is the chapter from the book written for German readers. This book is about one of the most vital "pedagogic movement" in the interwar Poland: "ritual adult education movement," founded and run by educationistis connected with the rural movement. The article consists of six parts. The first one presents the conflict between intellectual and peasant cluture; the author adduces here to the belles-let-tres and publicism as well as to nowadays already classical historical and sociological writings. The second parts is dovoted to the Danish ariginal of the rural adult education and its Polish beginnings. The third part gives a detalied description of three main sets of the polish rural adult education movement: national-catholic, left-oriented and state-oriented institutions. The fourth part is devoted to two educational conferences (in Łowicz in 1937 and Krzemieniec in 1938), which were ery important to the development of the rural adult education movement and were compared with Hohenrodter Bund that existed in Germany between 1923 and 1929. The fifth part prestents activities of two rural adult education centres linked with left-oriented peasant movement (in Szyce and Gać) and the opinions of their founder- Ignacy Solarz. The sixth past is "a general view of post-war days of the rural adult education movement." In this part the author draws a conclusion that the peasant masses have admittedly become a nation, but the culture created by those people has become a substantial part of the polish national intellectual culture. The peasants have become farmers- but the conflict between intellectual and peasant cultura hasn't died out yet.

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