Szkolnictwo białoruskie w Polsce w latach 1944–2016

Objective of this paper is to show the situation of Belarusian education from 1944 to 2016, i.e. in the times of rough and frequent politically motivated changes. It had negative impact on fate of schools with Belarusian teaching language, which are places of building national identity, sustaining seperate tradition, culture and language. In period from 1944 to late 80’s, Polish authorities had not developed particular strategy towards minority, thus their situation in PRL were unstable. As a result, initial growth of education nearly ended on completly liquidation in the 80’s. New chances for Polish Belarusians were creating with government transformation after 1989. Since this time situation of Belarusians and their education in Poland are stable.