W tekście podejmujemy próbę pokazania syntezy współczesnego rozumienia edukacji regionalnej, uwzględniając także podstawy prawne niniejszego zagadnienia. Zwracamy uwagę na możliwości realizacji treści regionalnych w praktyce edukacyjnej. Przedstawiamy wybrane kreatywne metody i formy wykorzystywane w edukacji regionalnej. Odnosimy się również do wyzwań stojących przed wspomnianą edukacją realizowaną w obszarze pedagogiki miejsca. Celem pracy było wskazanie kierunków rozwoju edukacji regionalnej we współczesnej szkole oraz pokazanie interesujących obszarów w kulturze regionu, z których może ona czerpać inspiracje. Przyczynkiem do poznania i analizy omawianego problemu w przestrzeni nauki były studia literatury i analizy badań naukowych ukazujące rolę edukacji regionalnej w budowaniu „ojczyzny prywatnej”, kształtowania identyfikacji z miejscem zamieszkania, a także zagadnień związanych z pamięcią regionalną, pamięcią społeczną, dziedzictwem kulturowym, regionem. Ponadto impulsem do podjęcia tego tematu były osobiste refleksje dotyczące przekazywania znaczenia edukacji regionalnej i jej roli w kształtowaniu tożsamości miejsca - tożsamości regionu.

The presented diagnostic study concerning intercultural competence was carried out in the pedagogical context of intercultural education. The research place was chosen purposively: it resulted from the intercultural character of Białystok. In the interwar period that the study refers to, the biggest national groups in the town were Poles and Jews. There were also Belarusians, Russians, Germans and Tatars. As part of the analysis of intercultural competence of students from Poland and Israel I focused on the respondents’ declarations concerning their knowledge of the social structure of pre-war Białystok. Then, I determined what motivates secondary school students to learn about the past. Developing the competence in the affective/motivational area is of key importance in intercultural communication. Identifying the reasons why secondary school students from Poland and Israel find it worth learning about the history of their ancestors is as important as knowledge of the history of our cultural group and other cultures. It was also important to determine the level of Polish youths’ readiness to communicate with students from Israel, and vice versa. Diagnosing the students’ competence allows educators to plan adequate educational activities aimed at broadening intercultural competence, to strengthen the existing resources, to improve the weak points, and fill in the gaps.

The presence of the Second Republic of Poland in Polish feature film, shaping the awareness and memory of that period (sketch of the problem)

The article presents the presence of the interwar period as an epoch in Polish films and series created both during the communist period and after 1989. Both those films for which the social and political events of the Second Polish Republic were the main theme, as well as those in which the interwar reality was only a background that added color or was only mentioned, were indicated. The first part of the article focuses largely on theoretical considerations. Then, the socio-political situation in the following decades was analyzed in parallel, as well as the binding guidelines of state bodies regarding the official narrative of the interwar period in the Polish People’s Republic. While formulating the conclusions, the author drew attention to aspects related to the interwar period, which, in her opinion, are lacking in contemporary Polish cinema.

In our research we are seeking for a Lower Silesian identity, we are especially interested in the Polish-German cultural heritage in social remembrance (or social oblivion). In the article our basic purpose is to provide the grounds for discussion about the presence of the sacred space in social memory (the old German Calvary as a part of contemporary Lubawka’s cultural heritage), using group interviews with visual presentations to stimulate a journey back into the past, to familiarize with the place and its images. We aim at the reconstruction of “social frames of memory”, the moments when the small sacral architecture began to lose its religious mad social power, and we also want to show young residents’ attitudes towards this process. The project also seems to have some social value because it may become an introduction to the debate on preserving the Calvary as an element of local identity.

Today, ethnic minorities have entered the second wave of emancipation. They are fighting for the right to cultural autonomy, the right to have their own past, history and social memory. The aim of the article is to learn how ethnic minorities “recover” lost social memory in the area of childhood memory and how they work to create ethnic identity again. The text is composed of four parts. The first presents selected aspects of childhood culture. The second is presents Pierre Nora’s concept of memory. The third is presents the results of research on selected ethnic literary texts (Kashubian and Silesian). The author’s conducted semantic and structural analyzes (in the approach of Roland Barthes and Paul Ricoeur). The analyzes allowed us to recognize ethnic childhood as a space of existential suffering and a time of loss of ethnic identity. The answer – in childhood and adulthood – are specific identity strategies. they are aids in constructing a new ethnic identity. The fourth part is Summary and reflection closing the text.