General Education: A Pedagogical Vision or Utopia? On the Translocation of the Theory of General Education in the Post-war Educational Discourse in Poland Cover Image

Kształcenie ogólne – wizja pedagogiczna czy utopia? W sprawie translokacji teorii kształcenia ogólnego w powojennym dyskursie pedagogicznym w Polsce
General Education: A Pedagogical Vision or Utopia? On the Translocation of the Theory of General Education in the Post-war Educational Discourse in Poland

Author(s): Dariusz Stępkowski
Subject(s): Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: liberal education; philosophy of education; vision; utopia; change

Summary/Abstract: The article describes evolution that had taken place in Poland regarding the understanding and allocation of the theory of liberal education after the Second World War. Selected studies of four pedagogues are analyzed: Sergei Hessen, Bogdan Nawroczyński, Bogdan Suchodolski, and Wincenty Okoń. The paper consists of three parts. The first one heuristically explains the problem of liberal education. The point of reference in these considerations are the contemporary traces of utopian thinking in Polish science of education and the historiosophic thoughts of Immanuel Kant. The second part contains an analysis of the concepts of liberal education of the authors mentioned above. In the third part, the author presents a proposal of distinguishing two types of liberal education – utopian and non-utopian (visionary), and idiographically reconstructs the course of change process which led to the current situation in Polish science of education.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 31-58
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish