Nowoczesne myślenie o kształceniu. Człowiek i różne drogi edukacji u źródeł współczesności (w perspektywie badań nad polskim szkolnictwem we Francji)
Modern approach to education. Man and different ways of schooling at the beginning of the present day (in the view of research into Polish education in France)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the academic discussion about man in terms of education and development of an individual (at the beginning of the modern times) is to present different research areas in school¬ing in Poland and abroad in the given historical periods. Man, be¬ing the elemental axis of reflection on the educational issues, will be presented in the orbit of modern notions, categories and values, which gave rise to modern and contemporary systems of educa¬tion. The whole of the academic discourse will be contained in two parts, presenting consecutively: the origins of modern thought about education and fulfilling modern-times ideas in education of the turn of the 18th and the 19th centuries, and then new ways of education in the interwar period in the perspective of research into the Polish educational system in France.In the first part of the article, the authors will look for the origins of modern thinking about developing human individual, beginning with considerations of ancient philosophers concerning the per¬fection of body and soul – heading towards the man of the Age of Light. Human individual, on the verge of modern times, gained freedom, intellectual independence and new potential¬for de¬velopment, due to which, man found himself in the centre of scien¬tific and philosophical reflection. The interest in man and his de¬velopment was the germ of modern pedagogical thought. The second part of the article will explore the issues and matters of new ways of education after 1918 in Poland and abroad, in places where Poles immigrated in biggest numbers, namely, France. Polish colony in France, counting over half a million, in the ana¬lyzed period, was the major constituent of the Polish community abroad. Polish emigration constituted an important group, due to its population, as well as its importance among foreign nations in France in the mid 20s. Studying complex problems of Polish education and Polish language teaching, we took as the starting point what had been published about it in France and Poland, broadening our knowledge by analysis of documents which have not yet been research or published.

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