Szkoły tworzone przez Urszulę Ledóchowską (1865–1939) na terenie Polski w latach dwudziestych XX wieku jako odpowiedź na potrzeby edukacyjne
Schools created by Ursula Ledóchowska (1865-1939) in Poland in the 1920s as a response to the educational needs

Summary/Abstract: Mother Ursula Ledochowska, founder of the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of the Grey, was a person of merit for the Catholic Church, but she was also someone who contributed to the reconstruction of the Polish educational system after the Great War. As soon as she returned from Scandinavia in 1920, Ledóchowska tried to establish various types of schools wherever there was a need. The number of Ursuline schools in the 1920s and 1930s was not impressive, since there were only thirteen institutions. Ursuline educational institutions were schools in: Pniewy, Goździchow, Otorow, Komorniki (common schools), Warsaw, Sieradz, Ozorków, Kobryn, Bugaj near Ozorków (private common schools), in Sieradz, Czarny Bor (public common schools). The sisters also ran Economic and Social School (Czarny Bór), School of Household (Pniewy), and numerous vocational courses. The purpose of this article was to answer two questions. The first was to find out what kind of schools and where did Mother Ledóchowska establish them? The second was to answer the question: did the presence of schools run by Ursulines actually contribute to the reconstruction of the Polish educational system, and if so, to what extent? In answering these questions, it should be emphasized that the purpose of the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of the Grey Nuns was not only educational work. The Sisters, who had been working on the Polish territory only since 1920, were not able to establish a large network of educational institutions in such a short period of time; however, the determination with which they created schools was enormous and despite the fact that their number was small, they certainly contributed to raising the level of education.

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