Teoretyczne podstawy wychowania państwowego w Polsce okresu międzywojennego (zarys problematyki)

The article addresses an issue of theoretical foundations of state education in the Second Polish Republic. It presents the outline of the concept of state education proposed by Kazimierz Sośnicki, Zygmunt Mysłakowski and Juliusz Balicki. K. Sośnicki characterized the issue of state education from the position of sociological pedagogy and the philosophy of state and law. By creating more than an ideological theory of state education, he systematized the basic concepts and highlighted specific properties of state education. He made a category of state ethos the central point of his theory. A significant contribution to the creation of the theoretical foundations of state education was made by Zygmunt Mysłakowski. Understanding the state as a sociological and cultural formation, he made the concept of „myth” the starting point for reflections on state and national education. He strived to shape a positive attitude of society towards the state. The theoretical foundation of state education was also the work of Jan Stanisław Bystroń, who presented the sociological standpoint. He combined state education with social education, with a deepening of social culture, an expansion of the content and scope of social relations, and a development of cooperation.