This project is a continuation and expansion of Goldie Shabad and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski research on political socialization in Poland. The project aims at testing the major hypotheses on the process of adolescents' political learning--those hypotheses which emphasize curricula effects, and those which stress the effects of the family, peer and secondary groups, the mass media, and students' own personal experiences of the systemic transformation.
In 1994-1995, we conducted a survey among students, aged 13-14, when
they were about to start their participation in a new civics education course
initiated by the Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) program. In 1995-1996,
in order to assess the impact of this two-year program on students' support
for democracy and the market, we conducted a panel survey among students
exposed to the EDC program and a survey among those not exposed to the
EDC program. In 1998, we conducted a large survey among secondary
school students. For data basis of this project, see LIST OF DATA
FILES.
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Goldie Shabad. 1996. "Support for Democracy and a Market Economy among Polish Students, Teachers, and Parents." Pp. 127-145 in Richard C. Remy and Jacek Strzemieczny (eds.) Building Civic Education for Democracy: Lessons from Poland. Bloomington: National Council for Social Studies.
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Goldie Shabad. 1997. "Continuity and Change in Political Socialization in Poland." Comparative Education Review, Vol. 41 (No. 1): 44-70.
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Goldie Shabad. 1998. "Can
Support for Democracy and the Market Be Learned in School? A Natural
Experiment in Post-Communist Poland." Political Psychology,
Vol.19 (No. 4): 749-779.
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Goldie Shabad. 2000. Continuity and
Change in Political Socialization in Poland. Pp.113-144 in Comparative
Perspectives on the Role of Education in Democratization. Part II:
Socialization, Identity, and the Politics of Control, edited by Erwin
H. Epstein and Noel F. McGinn. New York: Peter Lang. (Revised version).
Analysis of the support for democracy and its determinants among high
school students in Poland, 1998.
Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Goldie Shabad, Process of Adolescents' Political
Learning in Polish Schools.