Ewolucja polityki oświatowej państwa polskiego wobec mniejszości narodowych i etnicznych po 1989 r.
The evolution of Polish educational policy towards national and ethnic minorities after 1989

Summary/Abstract: The basic criteria of evaluating the situation of national and ethnic minorities in the country in which they live is to create legal and real possibilities for sustaining the language competence, culture and traditions by members of these minority groups. After 1989 the educational policy of the Polish state towards the minorities became compensative, but only towards the communities legally recognized as national or ethnic minorities, as well as communities using a regional language (the Kashubians). The problem of communities who have Polish citizenship and who are not mentioned in the act on national and ethnic minorities and on the regional language, still remains unsolved. They still aspire to the status and want their language to be legally recognized as regional. In recent years the problem is growing of educating foreign citizens’ children within the Polish Educational System. The presence of foreign pupils in Polish schools who are culturally different poses many new problems for the state about planning towards national, ethnic, linguistic or cultural minorities, especially in the context of existing legal regulations, which in an arbitrary manner impose the legal status and, connected with it, the scope of legal rights in the sphere of education.

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