Il pensiero pedagogico italiano nei manuali polacchi di storia dell’educazione : Italian education and pedagogical thought in Polish textbooks on history of education

• Main Author: Jan Wnęk
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Press 2018-07-01
• Series: The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
• Subjects: History of education; pedagogical thought; Italian school system; popularization of knowledge
• Online Access: http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/2425/2312

This paper describes the popularization of the Italian pedagogical thought in Polish text- books about the history of education in general. It has shown that the authors of the textbooks gave a lot of information about the Italian school system and education and presented profiles of outstanding Italian educationalists, e.g. St John Bosco or Maria Montessori. This paper indicates that in the past centuries Poles were open to Italian intellectual currents, academic trips to the Italian Peninsula, and education at local uni- versities. Polish textbooks about the history of education were popular (in the 20th c.) and still are an important source of knowledge about the history of Italian education. For the purposes of this paper, the contents of the most representative and popular textbooks have been analysed.