Organizacja szkolnictwa rolniczego w lubelskim okręgu szkolnym w latach 1944–1950

The article describes the post-war reconstruction of the system of agricultural education at the primary and secondary level as well as organisation of vocational courses in the Lublin school district. All levels of education were made available to both young and adult learners. The article also contains a description of the organisational and legal transformation of the educational system starting from the national level and going down to the level of local communities (Polish: gmina). It is followed by a general discussion of changes in the curriculum which took place at the time. The presented system was intended to raise the qualifi cations of peants, however its primary aim was to recruit supporters for the new authorities and for the transormations in agriculture.