Edukacja w szkołach z polskim językiem nauczania na Zaolziu w opiniach uczniów i ich rodziców

Abstract

: Due to the status of a national minority, Poles in the Czech Republic can make use of the rights granted to them. In this study, the legal aspects of the functioning of the national minority were briefly characterized and the acts were addressed which form the standards concerning the protection of these rights both in the international and Czech law. The research based on the application of the questionnaire method was conducted among the parents and children – the learners from the ninth class of primary schools with Polish as the teaching language in Zaolzie. This was aimed at finding out the opinions on education in schools teaching in Polish. The research results show that for the parents of learners educated in schools with Polish as the teaching language the choice of school for their child is a mani-festation of their Polishness, whereas the reasons why their children attend these schools is the possibility to learn Polish, the fact of being a Pole and the care for preserving their Polishness.