Ideological Education within the Family in Opinions of Secondary School Graduates

The article deals with, ideological education of children in a family. There was made an attempt at definition of the level of knowledge about intrafamily education in the case of students attending the senior grades of secondary schools. The analysis concerned mainly ideological education of the family and prospects of proper influencing of the young generation by the family in the area of ideological education. The above subjects are discussed against the background of materials collected in 1976 from 400 graduates within the framework of researches on pedagogical culture of the young people. Detailed analysis encompassed outlooks being most closely connected with the ideological education - shaping of ideological attitudes among the younger generation and their Weltanschauung. They соncern mainly the significance attributed by young people to the socializing and educational function in the overall family, life and its correlation with the cultural function, which is of essential importance for this sphere of education. That is due to the fact that it exerts a decisive influence on selection of factors , which should be taken into consideration if we wish the young man to be properly adapted to life in the society. Attention was primarily focussed on elements of the cultural heritage of our nation, values and ideals connected with them, which the young people under survey wish to pass to descendants. There are further discussed personality models by means of which they intend to internalize that contents among their children in order to achive the educational success. While analyzing the outlooks of the young people, the researchers estimated both the scope and quality of knowledge about each one of the factors of the educational process and the extent to which' they are aware of the necessity of taking those factors into consideration in the educational process within the family. The conclusions ensuing from the analyses performed are discussed against the background of socio-demographic features of the young generation and their participation in courses devoted to "Adaptation to Family Life". On the basis of the conducted studies there was formulated a general conclusion, which says that the level of pedagogical culture of the young people about to leave the secondary schools is relatively low. Accordingly, we might assume that the ideological education' of children,', they will have in the future, will be carried out in an improper manner from the pedagogical point of view, and that it will be taking place - first of all outside the family boundaries, most probably mainly at school and in other educational circles. In the final part of the article there are determined theoretical and methodological problems belonging to the discussed problem area, which should become an object of analysis in the near future. That is so, because we believe that solution of these problems constitutes a prerequisite for empirical studies of these problems