Ukrainian students enrolled in music education studies in Poland – education, attitudes, professional expectations, and their relations to their environment – research report
Ukrainian students enrolled in music education studies in Poland – education, attitudes, professional expectations, and their relations to their environment – research report
The significant growth in the number of Ukrainian s
tudents at Polish institutions of
higher education has significantly changed the face
of academic education in this country.
The existing model of higher education mostly based
, especially in smaller centres, on
studies of a single nation has been evolving over a
t least several years in the direction of
a bi- or multicultural model. Ukrainians currently
constitute the largest group of minority
students in Polish institutions of higher education
, which affects social attitudes perceptible
in the academic environment, arouses interest in th
e Other or evokes negative cultural ste-
reotypes and prejudice. In the context of these cha
nges, key questions arise about the mo-
bility of Ukrainian students to Poland, which can b
e addressed in the following research
questions: What are the motives of Ukrainian studen
ts coming to Poland? Will Ukrainian
graduates remain in Poland and be assimilated, or w
ill the higher professional qualifica-
tions earned help many Ukrainians with Polish degre
es to build a new social, economic
and cultural order?
What is the structure of education for a Ukrainian
student – one based on the domi-
nance of one cultural canon or one that shows cultu
ral diversity?
Included these visible changes at Polish universiti
es were also programmes in “Art Ed-
ucation in the Musical Arts”, including those condu
cted in the Institute of Music at the
Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk. Since 2014, this inst
itution and institute have offered
“semester exchange” and “double degree” programmes
for students from Ukrainian insti-
tutions, and many Ukrainians have chosen Słupsk as
the place for the full programme of
their music and pedagogical studies.
The theoretical section of the article is divided i
nto three parts:
1. Academic mobility - in which select literature o
n the situation of students pursuing
their education abroad is discussed. At the foregro
und of these discussions are the
problems of students’ adaptation to a new, cultural
ly foreign environment. Also con-
sidered are the perceived difficulties in studying
in the chosen field, as well as the
question of the declared strength of the desire of
Ukrainian students to emigrate to a new
country, understood in the perspective of their car
eer development in the profession.
2. Students from Ukraine pursuing studies in music
and pedagogy form a certain image
of their future professional employment, namely as
a music teacher at school. There-
fore, the focus of this article is the analysis of
different models of this profession and
their integration with the interests and musical ac
tivities they engage in.
Jarosław Chaci
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ski
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3. Another area of the literature analysis, underta
ken in order to learn about the changes
in the consciousness of Ukrainian students, is the
subject of shaping their individual
cultural image, based on the dominance of their nat
ive cultural canon, which then un-
dergoes an inevitable process of acculturation. In
this aspect, it is important to esti-
mate how much they have learned and their ability t
o recognize another cultural tra-
dition, as well as to acquire the competence to dea
l with the history of Polish culture
and its most outstanding works in the musical, visu
al, architectural and literary arts.
The research variables identified in the theoretica
l part of the article were then the main
inspiration for the survey research, included in th
e second part of the article, in which
Ukrainian students, answering the questions in the
survey, declared their attitudes toward
selected phenomena in which they participate, made
a self-assessment of their assimilation
of the Polish cultural canon in the context of the
previous canon of their native Ukrainian
culture, declared their professional preferences, o
riented towards performing the future
work of a music teacher according to a defined model.
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