Before the War. Pedagogical Ideas, Opinions and Views in Selected Polish Magazines of 1939. Cover Image

Przed wojną. Pedagogiczne idee, opinie, poglądy w wybranych czasopismach polskich z 1939 roku
Before the War. Pedagogical Ideas, Opinions and Views in Selected Polish Magazines of 1939.

Author(s): Wiesława Sajdek
Subject(s): Education, Psychology, Media studies, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: cultural watershed; war as the turning point; educational ideal; psychology and pedagogy; the part of the classical tradition in education;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the content of selected Polish magazines depicting the views on the educational ideals, the part of tradition in their development, as well as new trends in pedagogy dominating in those times. They originate in various research areas, such as ‘Filomata’ of Lviv, disseminating the deepened knowledge of the classical tradition in Poland, ‘Pedagogium,’ ‘the magazine devoted to the psychology of a teacher and methods of educating’, ‘Pełnia życia’ (‘The Fullness of Life’), a quarterly for monks, or ‘Parametr,’ a specialist journal on teaching mathematics, including more general reflections can be found on the obligations imposed on teachers in that time. The key of the selection is 1939, the time of the edition of all the texts mentioned above and the connection, mediate or immediate, with the events which were soon to change radically the picture of Europe and of the world.

  • Issue Year: 3/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 147-161
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish