Model rodziny i wychowania rodzinnego w parafialnej prasie wielkopolskiej w II Rzeczypospolitej na przykładzie „Tygodnika Parafji Zbąszyńskiej”
Family and family education model in parish press of Great Poland in 2nd Polish Republic: „Tygodnik Parafji Zbąszynskiej” example

Summary/Abstract: Local press played a significant role in 2nd Polish Republic both from theperspective if state administration, territorial autonomies, political parties and theexpectations of wide social environments and local communities. It fulfilled the needof information on the social, political, educational, cultural and economical life ofspecific environments. It also worked as a tool in propaganda and political agitation,it familiarized ideologies of political parties and expressed views and idea of localcommunities. It played an important part in local economy life; it educated andactively took part in popularization of interests in regional issues.Local press was both: amirror of contemporary social relations, political and nationaldivisions and the important agent in initiatives such as cultural events. It registeredand pictured life of the town and its area citizens, gave pedagogical impact on theyoung generation by giving them patterns and forms of positive social actions,popularized specific ideologies, educational concepts, patterns of behavior, it createdand influenced the local communities attitudes and actions. Its role was especiallyvisible in Great Poland, where local press helped in creation of socio-cultural life insmall towns and education. In the group of magazines that specifically influencedlocal communities cultural character and had an important educational impact weshould ( ) include the parish press.Parish magazines in many cases played a role of the local community press. Beside theinformation on the church and parish community problems they included a lot of newsfrom the life of the town and its area; they constituted a chronicle of local communityevents and also propagated precise world-view and coherent with it concepts oft.It was a case in Zbąszyń, were was published.played a sagnificant educational role in its environment. It propagateda homogenus, stright forward perspective (concept) of education, coherent with socialteaching of catholic chuch and ideology of nationalist parties. Magazine oftenpublished articles on social pedagogy, citizenship, patriotic, religious, moral and family education in “the spirit of catholic and national values”. With great passion magazine propagated catholic model of family, specific rules of family life, patterns of family, education, wife and mother, husband and father, children, ideal of good Polish woman and house wife, ideal of good Polish man, husband and father. Specific roles and tasks were associated with them, obligations of parents towards children were also expressed. Very often articles included advises and canceling on mother-children relationship.There were attempts of creation of positive attitudes of children towards parents based on the use of examples. There were also articles stressing the meaning and significance of shared responsibility and actions of school and home in education towards child benefit. Most of the articles published in had a didactic, ideologist and moralizing character it was a tool for fulfillment of specific goals of “spiritual powers”. Despite that kind of single-tract perspective on educational issues magazine gained a wide popularity and respect within local community of Zbąszyń and its area. Presented attitude remained coherent with politically and morally (religiously) educated community and simply mirrored ideas shared by the majority of citizens. There is no doubt tat it played a significant role in construction of specific cultural character of Zbąszyń in the Interwar Period and education of its citizens.

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