Metody i formy pracy w szkolnictwie pijarskim
Methods and forms of Piarist education

Summary/Abstract: The paper reviews forms and methods of youth work incident to the Piarist Order activity and depicts the structure and organisation of both the Order and the main assumptions of the Piarist school institution. Moreover, the article indicates once most innovative and contemporarily popular aspects of pedagogic work, such as humanistic approach to a student or recompensing which the founder of the Order Joseph Kalasancjusz wrote about in guidelines for work related to education of foster children. The offer of reg-ular and free school prepared by the Piarist conventuals was one of the first in the world addressed to poor children and youth. The above-mentioned pa-per depicts ongoing changes in the Piarist Order, mainly due to the effectiveness of teaching piarist institutions has begun to change and became schools for the elite. Not without significance is the rather thoroughly characterized figure of the founder himself, as well as the most popular Polish piarist and reformer – Stanisław Konarski.

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