Resumen de New Challenges faced by the Polish institutions of preschool and early-school education (ECEC) in the context of the war in Ukraine

Jolanta Karbowniczek, Urszula Ordon, Mirosław Łapot

• The subject of this article is the preparation of Polish preschool and early-school education for working with the refugee children who have fallen victim to the war in Ukraine. The main aim of the research is to review and analyze the Polish and foreign literature on the subject of early childhood education and care (ECEC). As a result of the archive and library searches, it was ascertained that rather little research into the matter has been conducted in Poland (the reason for which is the absence of previous experience with minors being war refugees) and that there is a rich experience in the countries of the West, as confirmed by the extensive literature of the subject.This article indicates the principal directions of research and activities – the problem of war trauma as experienced by a child, supporting the families of refugee children, and providing ECEC teachers with the necessary competences for working with children refugees afflicted by war. This article constitutes a sui generis introduction to research on preparing Polish ECEC teachers for the challenges connected with the war in Ukraine and the presence of Ukrainian children refugees in the Polish institutions of education.