Ocena i kwalifikacja podręczników do nauki literatury polskiej w świetle zarządzeń władz oświatowych lat 1775-1939

The author presents an outline of the educational author ities’ activities with regard to the official evaluation and qualification of the textbooks used in Polish schools since 1775 till 1939. In a chronological review of the ministerial instructions the author has taken into consideration some selected elements of the educational policy in a given period, as wéll as the merits of the Towarzystwo do Ksiąg Elementarnych, the Komisja Naukowa (in Galicia), and of the committee appointed by the Ministry of Religious Confessions and Public Education, with regard to defining the general form and function of the manuals. The fact that the author has been aware of the changeability of criteria employed by various qualifying committees has enabled him to construct an adequate methodological apparatus which might be also of use in further research on the manuals for teaching lite ra ture in secondary schools in the years 1918—1939.