%0 Journal Article
%T Education that Saves and Creates: Is Only Avant-Garde Conservatism Left?
%A Kostkiewicz, Janina
%J Polish Pedagogical Thought
%V VIII (2022)
%R 10.4467/24504564PMP.22.004.16057
%N Issue 8
%P 61-78
%K conservative education, conservative pedagogy, critical pedagogy, avant-garde in pedagogy, conservative pedagogical thought
%@ 2450-4572
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/polska-mysl-pedagogiczna/article/edukacja-ktore-ocala-i-tworzy-pozostal-juz-tylko-awangardowy-konserwatyzm
%X 
	The state of Polish education shows that in the last decade it lacked the influence of pedagogy, which saves tradition and encourages the evolution of educational improvement. It has faced too many enemies among the elite of socialist pedagogy, which was (supposedly) dethroned after 1989. After three decades of soft political and scientific games, this academic elite successfully colonialized the field of pedagogy by means of (neo-Marxist) critical pedagogy. As a result of this pedagogue associated with another stream of educational ideology (e.g., rightwing, Catholic) experience various types of marginalization and even oppression (depending on the environment): from pseudoscientific arguments to the rationale (again!) of the ‘only right’ educational ideology. In this situation, conservative pedagogues are left in the role of the avant-garde; practicing conservative pedagogy that is extremely unpopular, creative, and at the same time innovative. This avant-garde can bear the weight of aversion, contempt, and the marginalization by the academic (neo-Marxist) majority, which as a result of colonization has come to dominate the structures of science and its closer and further contexts. In light of this situation, we are faced with the following question: are we left with only avant-garde conservatism?