Educational Centres of the Ukrainian National Minority in the Warmian-Masurian Province as Subjects of the Formation of Personal Security and Identity

Abstract

The article analyses the peculiarities of the functioning of educational centres of the Ukrainian national minority in the Warmian-Masurian Province – the complex of schools in Gorowo Ilawieckie and the school named after Lesya Ukrainka in Bartoszyce. The historical aspects of the establishment and development of such schools, their problems and perspectives of functioning have been considered. The purpose of the article is to study the peculiarities of the functioning of educational centres of the Ukrainian national minority in Gorowo Ilawieckie and Bartoszyce, the legal basis, possibilities and prospects of their activity. The thesis that the new educational initiatives introduced in the legislative acts of Poland and the activation of migration have an impact on the functioning of educational centres for studying in the language of national minorities and learning the language of national minorities is the research hypothesis of the article. The research problem includes the following questions: 1. What changes in the educational processes of studying in the native language and learning the native language have new legislative initiatives in Poland led to?; 2. Are these centres able to face the new challenges associated with the migration of Ukrainians? The methodological basis of the research is the institutional and legal method, the method of focused interviewing, the method of specific situations, the systemic and historical method.