The Values in the Work of Clémentine Tańska-Hoffman Addressed to Children and Adolescents (Selected Examples) Cover Image

Świat wartości w twórczości Klementyny z Tańskich Hoffmanowej adresowanej do dzieci i młodzieży (na wybranych przykładach)
The Values in the Work of Clémentine Tańska-Hoffman Addressed to Children and Adolescents (Selected Examples)

Author(s): Elzbieta Stoch
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, History of Education
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Clémentine Tańska-Hoffman (1798-1845); literature; education; values; didacticism; child; adolescents

Summary/Abstract: Clémentine Hoffmanowa (1798-1845), maiden name Tańska, a Polish prose writer, one of the first Polish writers for children, the creator of the first Polish children's magazine „Entertainment for Children”. The article aims at the description the values in the work of Clémentine Tańska-Hoffman addressed to children and adolescents. Article gives a view of values: piety, patriotism, love of parents and siblings, praises the use of their mother tongue etc. Based on various sources: literary texts of Reminders of the good mother – latest her advice for her daughter (1819), Moral novels for children (1820), Binging of Helen (1823). Cited texts characterized by didacticism and moralizing, which was related to the education model in the early nineteenth century. Tańska, when was writing about values in Moral novels for children, she recalled silhouette of Father Gregory Piramowicz (1735-1801) and prince Joseph Poniatowski (1763-1813). The article describes, that publications of Hoffman after the November Uprising, were controlled by the Russian censor. Shows the universality of Tańska books and their reception by posterity.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 5-29
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish