Nauczyciel wobec problemu ubóstwa

The article presents the results of the researches, conducted in 2005-2015 , which have given the opportunity to answer to the questions about teachers‚ attitudes to the most important, nowadays social problems. During the research we have been looking for the answer to the questions about teachers’ knowledge about the issue of poverty; categories of perception of the poverty; consequences of the poverty and eliminating the effects of poverty, as well as the preventive actions. The research sample consisted of teachers from elementary and secondary schools from Bytom city (the place of the research was purposeful selected because of the increasing rate of unemployment, which implying lower participation of the residents in the consumption of social goods). This article presents a brief analysis of the