Biograficzno-pokoleniowe rysy w narracjach nauczycieli na tle przemian w minionym trzydziestoleciu
Biographical and generational features in teachers’ narratives against the background of changes in the past thirty years

Summary/Abstract: The analyses are based on teachers’ memoirs and autobiographical narratives that havebeen collected as a result of subsequent editions of research conducted between 1989 and2016. These narratives show the problems, tensions and transformations in education,and in the role of a teacher in Poland over the past 30 years. Changes seen through theeyes of successive generations of teachers, against the background of their life history andprofessional experiences and achievements, are a record of the changes that took placeduring the system transformation. They may be the evidence of an inevitable generationalchange in the teaching profession and teacher community. Research shows that thegeneration born in the 1950s and 1960s, involved in the democratic changes in Poland atthe turn of the 1980s and 1990s, is leaving the teaching profession. This generationparticipated in the “Solidarity” social movement. Its members were brought up and educatedin the sense of a strong social commitment, the so-called ethos. Currently, young teachersborn in the 1990s and later enter the profession. They belong to the generation of free,democratic Poland, which has a more pragmatic attitude to life and professional work ineducation. This is the generation of the internet, unlimited choice, and open global accessto information and goods. The implications of such findings are discussed in the article.

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