Dorota Żołądź-Strzelczyk

• Prof. dr hab.
• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Women’s opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills in the 18th century still differed significantly from men’s. Girls had fewer choices: education at home, or at a finishing school. It was mainly convent education, over time giving way to secular education. This article attempts to show education from the perspective of women, their memories rec...

Women have always taken care of children, it is the role and the calling of every mother – this is what has been claimed since antiquity. In addition to mothers, other women have cared for children and participated in their upbringing: wet nurses, nannies and various types of governesses or teachers. Among the last group, we can distinguish between...

In old Polish philosophical and pedagogical thought, comments on learning appear rarely. As a rule, the relevant recommendations are addressed to those who teach and show how and what to teach, how to educate, and how to deal with the learner. The perspective of the other side, i.e. the learner, is most often omitted in general treatises, but is fo...

The article uses source materials to present the situation of the family of Stanisław Kazimierz Kruszyński, a noble living with his relatives in Lower Łąkta in Lesser Poland. The sylwa stored in the collection of Ossolineum in Wroclaw, contains several messages about children. These are notes speaking of the birth of subsequent children, the place...

Kazimierz Puchowski, Jezuickie kolegia szlacheckie Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów. Studium z dziejów edukacji elit, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2007, ss. 636

Świat biskupa Jana Lubrańskiego

Polacy z Korony i Litwy na studiach w jezuickim Wiirzburgu (1582- 1630)

The issues of a child and childhood in the Polish territories have been neglected by historians for a long time. One of the reasons for this situation was the lack of appropriate sources for such studies. On one hand, the sources for analysing the history of childhood are relatively scarce; on the other hand, the sources that exist do not often pro...

Gdańskie Gimnazjum Akademickie, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2008: t. 1. Szkice z dziejów, pod red. E. Kotarskiego, s. 419; t. 2. Wybór źródeł z XVI i XVII wieku, red. L. Mokrzeckiego, 323 s.; t. 3. Wybór źródeł od XVI do XVIII wieku, red. Z. Nowak, 560 s.; t. 4. W progach Muz i Minerwy, red. Z. Głombiowska, 261 s.; t. 5 (Gdańsk 2011...

Nauki pedagogiczne w Polsce. Tradycje - współczesność - przyszłość. Materiały z konferencji, red. S. Michalski, R. Ossowski, Bydgoszcz 1994, Wydawnictwo WSP, ss. 561

Hieronim Baliński’s treatise on upbringing a noble boy, written in 1598, commissioned by Jan Łączyński for his son Kasper, has been used in literature for a long time. It is among the best known educational instructions the Old Polish period. Providing his guidance, Baliński showed exemplary education of a nobility boy. Baliński divided it into sta...

“The Toys Were Plentiful”. Children’s Toys in Polish Lands during the Middle Ages and the Modern EraChildren have been playing since time immemorial, with pebbles, sticks and fruit as their first playthings. In time games involved specially prepared objects. Different cultures and periods feature similar toys due to certain regularities of a child’...

Abstrakt “How to Educate Youth so that They will later become Servants of the Church of God”. Referring to Education in the Homes of Ministers and the Ordained in the Synods of The Unity of the Brethren in Greater Poland The article discusses the preparation of the clergy of The Unity of the Brethren in Greater Poland. The best way of education wa...