Anny Eliot Ticknor edukacja korespondencyjna kobiet przez kobiety (women) mail-based education
Anna Eliot Ticknor: Correspondence Education of Women by Women

Summary/Abstract: This text is dedicated to Anna Eliot Ticknor, a pioneer of correspondence education in the United States, who in 1873 founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. The Society’s activities focused on distance learning through mail-based instruction, emphasizing the learner’s self-directed study. Remarkably progressive for its time, the Society was devoted to the education of women by women – regardless of their background, race, social status, or level of formal education. In this article, I draw upon the Society’s original commemorative publication honoring Ticknor, as well as descriptions found in international (primarily American) literature, to explore the organization’s work and its influence on contemporary educational thought. I also attempt to reinterpret Ticknor’s educational vision in the context of today’s world.

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