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Katarzyna Rakowska – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
In 2019, Poland experienced a massive teachers' strike that lasted three weeks. Although the strike had a great impact on many teachers, in the end, this three-week action failed to obtain any of its demands. Using the concepts of workers' associational power and union legitimacy, I argue that one of the reasons for the loss was a crisis of…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Foreign Countries, Unions, Elementary School Teachers
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Wagner, Josefine – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
In this paper, the 2019 Polish Teachers Strike (PTS), joined by 75 percent of all public schools and kindergartens for over three weeks, gives rise to an investigation in teacher professionalism that is grounded in local activism. Reading the Polish Teacher Strike (PTS) as a moment of social upheaval (Buchowski, 2017), I claim that the strike…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Activism, Teacher Strikes
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Williams, Don – Higher Education, 1982
The 1980-81 Polish upheavals included proposals for dramatic change in higher education. Taking advantage of momentum for change created by Solidarity and using strikes, academics, and students produced temporary changes sometimes representing complete policy reversals. Possible directions for Eastern European socialist higher education are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Policy