IDENTITY AND KNOWLEDGE OF MACEDONIAN CHILDREN-REFUGEES IN SOCIALIST POLAND: GEOPOLITICS OF EDUCATION

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Anna Kurpiel

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From 1948 till early 1950s, the Polish People’s Republic accepted around 15 thousand refugees of the Greek Civil War. The refugees connected with the defeated side of the Greek Communist Army constituted a heterogeneous group of Greeks, Macedonians, and Aromanians, including both adults and children. Poland, like many other Eastern European countries, sheltered them as part of the solidarity within communist parties. However, till 1956 the anti-Yugoslavian discourse affected the fate of refugees in Poland making the refugees of Greek origin a favored group and treating those of Macedonian origin as Tito collaborators.
The paper aims to present the Macedonian schooling system organized in Poland for the refugees together with an unknown case of the Macedonian textbooks for school children prepared and printed in Poland. The analysis of the textbooks is situated in the broader framework of the international policy of the Eastern Block and Yugoslavia, Polish-Macedonian relations in the 20th century as well as the sociology and history of knowledge.

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Kurpiel, Anna. 2021. “IDENTITY AND KNOWLEDGE OF MACEDONIAN CHILDREN-REFUGEES IN SOCIALIST POLAND: GEOPOLITICS OF EDUCATION”. EthnoAnthropoZoom/ЕтноАнтропоЗум 19 (18-19), 59-99. https://doi.org/10.37620/EAZ1918-1959k.
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