Polish Education in Sweden

Abstract

The author briefly presents the Polish education in Sweden after the World War II with reference to the policy of the Kingdom toward immigrants. It was in 1975 that the Swedish Parliament passed new principles of the ¡migrant policy:

1. equality of the immigrants and the Swedes;


2. free choice of a cultural pattern;


3. cooperation and solidarity between the Swedish society and particular ethnic groups.

Moreover, special donations are guaranteed for national immigrant organizations. The above reforms also concern the problems of immigrant education in native languages. The author estimates the number of Poles in Sweden at about 30 thousand. Children consitute 30% out of the. total. The main teaching centres are as follows: Sztokholm, Malmo, Geteborg, Norrkoping, Lund. They are also the biggest Polish immigrant centres.

Every whose at least one parent is an immigrant has a right to be taught its mother tongue in a Swedish school. At present there are about 150 teachers of Polish employed in Swedish schools.