Backlash? – the state and challenges of anti-discrimination education in Poland with particular regard to ethnic otherness

The main aim of the article is to describe the state and challenges of anti-discrimination education in Poland and to analyse how it influences the rights of national and ethnic minorities and foreign pupils. The question, whether we deal with the backlash against anti-discrimination education in Poland has been preoccupying the experts and practitioners for some time. The application of specific antidiscrimination provisions in the education sector plays the key role in this regard. The irrefutable reality is of a retreat of the state in these areas that threatens its social role and has the result of inequalities, xenophobia, and intolerance. The central question then becomes – how might the backlash against anti-discrimination education affect the situation of national and ethnic minorities and foreigners and social attitudes towards these groups