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Schools of the Commission of National Education’s Polesian Department

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Walasek S.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

269-292

EN

The extensive literature on the functioning of schools in the era of the Commission of National Education has not addressed in full all the questions that we ask with regard to how the education reform was implemented in the specific departments of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Current research aims at complementing crucial information in that respect. It also allows assessing the level and the scope of enforcement of the Commission’s Acts in school practice.

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Education system of the Commission of National Education’s Navahrudak Department

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Jamrożek W., Szablicka-Żak J.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

257-268

EN

The article on the education system in the Navahrudak Department presents various aspects of the work of the Commission of National Education’s institutions and people included in the book of our authorship. This publication is meant to be of an analytical, synthetic nature. On the one hand, it is based on the analysis of source materials; on the other, it refers to studies depicting the Commission’s achievements in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the work of the schools under its authority in this area, including the Navahrudak Department. The Navahrudak Department was formally established by the Commission of National Education in 1783 in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to cover the area of the provinces of Navahrudak, Minsk and part of Polotsk, which had lost part of its lands, captured by Russia, following the First Partition of Poland. The department was to be home to an academic department school in Navahrudak, subdepartment schools in Babruysk, Khalopyenichy, Minsk, Mazyr, Nyasvizh, Slutsk and Juravičy as well as monastic schools in Luzki (Piarist Order), Ushachy (Dominican Order), Berezvech (Basilian Order) and Dzisna (Franciscan Order), all of which received the status of subdepartment schools. The department was also home to parochial schools over which the Commission sought to assume authority that played a certain part in the spreading of education among peasants as well as making education available to landless nobles, who were numerous in Lithuania.

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Jean Emmanuel Gilibert i Francuzi w Polsce i na Litwie w latach 1770-1780

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Beauvois D.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2015

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vol. 60

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issue 1

7-16

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The author is trying to remind us of great role of French culture and French people in spreading the ideas of Enlightenment in Poland. Common use of French language in high societies in 18th century and excellent knowledge of books from Paris created favourite conditions for contacts of Poland with France. The best evidence of common culture of Enlightenment was the Commission of National Education (KEN) and the deep social changes. The direct contacts of French thinkers, writers and scientists with Poland also caused the changes of horizons of aristocracy and gentry. We will remind the main animators of this movement followed A. Jobert. J.E. Gilibert takes a very important place among the animators of Enlightenment. Author intends to present the phases of knowing him, generally mentioning the main conclusions of many research on Gilibert. At the same time author leaves to next speakers a detailed analyze of Gilbert’s contribution to the development of Polish science

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Bibliography of the Commission of National Education: Previous editions and the current state of research

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Nowicki M., Ratajczak K.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

293-307

EN

The aim of this article is to investigate prior editions of bibliographies of the history of the first central school authority in the history of the Commonwealth, its accomplishments in the field of education law, publishing work, including textbook production, as well as school practice, visitations and supervision. This study presents both the contents and the methodological assumptions taken by the authors of previous bibliographical compilations. It also calls for a new, complementary compilation of primary and secondary sources that demonstrates the current state of research in Polish and international historiography.

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Schools of the Commission of National Education’s Greater Poland Department

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Żołądź-Strzelczyk D., Nowicki M., Ratajczak K., Gulczyńska J.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

125-141

EN

The Commission of National Education created a comprehensive school network, including the Greater Poland Department, consisting of department and subdepartment schools along with loosely connected with them parochial schools, which in its entirety remained under the authority of the Crown Main School. This article presents the history of the Greater Poland Department from the time of the Commission of National Education’s establishment in 1773 until the Commission terminated its operations in this region amid the Partitions of Poland in 1793. This study explores the department school in Poznań, the subdepartment schools in Kalisz, Wschowa, Trzemeszno, Toruń and Międzyrzecz as well as the parochial schools.

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The Piarists and the Commission of National Education’s Piarist Department: Origins, contexts, interpretations

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Puchowski K.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

195-216

EN

In the article, the usual emphasis on innovative elements in the description of the characteristics of Stanisław Konarski’s education reform has been contrasted with opinions pointing to the compromise, halfway and eclectic character of the undertaken measures. In fact, it was not until the Piarist schools were subjugated to the Commission of National Education that their status, objectives and programmes were changed. It has to be borne in mind that until the times of the Commission, any changes in regard to education the Piarists had proposed had to be approved by the Order’s supervisors and could not expose the Order to conflict with the Church authorities. On their part, the orders saw education only in relation to the piety that they lived by and desired to instil in others. It impeded the development of science and the distinguished scholars of particular orders for a long time could not bring themselves to accept science’s autonomy from faith. The Commission of National Education removed those barriers to a great extent, continually emphasising the necessity to modernise the programme of education and carefully supervising that process in the schools run by the Piarist Order. What was notable was that by the Commission’s recommendations, Piarist colleges began, more distinctly than ever, radiating the Enlightenment ideas. The greater stress on the teaching of mathematical and natural sciences and the promotion of experiments in pure science were reflective of that transformation.

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KOMISJA EDUKACJI NARODOWEJ A ENCYKLOPEDIA, ALBO SŁOWNIK ROZUMOWANY NAUK, SZTUK I RZEMIOSŁ (CZ. 1. WYMIAR WYCHOWAWCZY)

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Janeczek S.

Zeszyty Naukowe KUL

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2016

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vol. 59

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issue 1

17-39

EN

This paper combines on the one hand the educational ideals and didactics in the schools of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth reformed by the Commission of National Education (1773), and on the other hand one of the most representative testimonies of the then intellectual culture, i.e. Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, published in the years 1751–1780. The activity of the Commission, likewise its preceding reforms carried out in the Commonwealth in church schooling in the mid-eighteenth century, correspond with analogous changes in Europe, their specific example manifestation Encyclopédie. Their spirit was similar, it sought to reconcile modern utilitarianism – appropriate to the needs of absolutist states, which had taken the concern for education from religious groups – with an integral vision of school. In this vision, the fundamental elements was moral formation combined with religious formation. Despite some manifestations of certain rationalism and naturalism, in line with the spirit of the epoch, rather more typical of Encyclopédie than the Commission’s schooling, religion remained the foundation of morality, and the latter was the ground of the social order.

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The Commission of National Education and its transformation from 1773 to 1794

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Bartnicka K., Dormus K.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

9-60

EN

The unexpected news about the suppression of the Society of Jesus by Pope Clement XIV arrived in Warsaw in September 1773 during the Sejm summoned for the purpose of ratifying the First Partition of the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The pope decided to subordinate the schools and the estate owned by the Jesuits to the secular clergy. Despite the pope’s recommendation, the parliamentarians decided to nationalise post-Jesuit schools and their estate. A central state office, the Commission of National Education, was established to supervise those schools. The post-Jesuit estate, converted into an educational fund under the authority of the Commission, would be used solely for the operations of schools and teachers as well as for a profound education reform. The Commission was instituted on 14 October 1773 and took charge of education and public schools without exceptions. In 1776, despite many obstacles, it assumed full control over its educational fund and commenced work immediately. Despite the belief generally held today, in its 20 years of existence, the Commission of National Education was significantly transformed on several occasions and did not operate without stopping. What was invariable were the concept and objective of the Commission and its schools: to raise an enlightened, public-oriented and happy man, a good citizen and patriot, capable of building a happy and wealthy society and a strong state. In 1795, Poland lost its independence for 123 years, but owing to the Commission’s activity, a new nation was born that was prepared to fight for its freedom.

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Vilnius University in the days of the Commission of National Education (1773–1794)

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Kamińska J.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

109-124

EN

This article presents an outline of the history of Vilnius University in the days of the Commission of National Education. It characterises an organisational pattern and educational objectives that were defined in the essential document of the Commission, ‘Ustawy Kommissyi Edukacyi Narodowey dla stanu akademickiego i na szkoły w kraiach Rzeczypospolitey przepisane’ [‘The Commission of National Education’s Acts for the Academic Estate and the Schools of the Commonwealth’]. Moreover, it presents the process of converting Vilnius Academy into a modern, enlightened university. It points to its functions, such as education, including teacher training, scientific research, promotion of knowledge and supervision over secular schools. It also presents the aspect of the professors’ effort to provide scientific resources for the development of mathematical and natural sciences and medicine. The author has outlined the pragmatic aspect of professors’ lectures as well. As in other schools of the Commission, the Lithuanian Main School’s crucial educational objective was to form good, enlightened citizens who could be useful to the state.

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Education system in the Commonwealth’s Eastern Borderlands in the days of the Commission of National Education (1773–1794)

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Massalski A., Kula E.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

171-193

EN

The article presents the transformation of the education system in the days of the Commission of National Education in the area of the Commonwealth’s south-eastern borderlands, ie the then provinces of Bratslav, Kyiv, Podolia and Volhynia, in the geographical, political and administrative context. Owing to their diversity in social, ethnic and religious terms and their distant location, these regions were particularly neglected in the Polish scholarly literature dealing with education. In 14 secondary schools operating within the Ukrainian and Volhynian Departments, students were being taught first by former Jesuits and Basilians and by secular teachers, graduates from the Crown Main School, thereafter.

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Kraków Academy: The Crown Main School from 1773 to 1794

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Ryś J.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

77-107

EN

The establishment of the Commission of National Education initiated a process of profound changes in Polish education, including both organisational structures and teaching programmes. One of the first tasks faced by the new educational authority was the creation of a school system covering the successive stages of education from primary schools to universities. The new structures were to be headed by universities, exercising control over lower-level education. The existing universities in Kraków and Vilnius differed significantly from their modern European counterparts, so the Commission initially wanted to establish new ones. In the course of discussions and at the request of representatives of the Kraków Academy, decisions were made to reform both universities. The reform of the Kraków Academy was undertaken by her student, Hugo Kołłątaj, who learned the current trends in the development of European universities during his studies abroad. The reformed university, which was now called the Crown Main School, consisted of the College of Morality, with schools of theology, law and literature, and the College of Physics, with schools of mathematics, physics and medicine. The Seminary for Candidates for the Academic Estate was launched at the university, in which future teachers were educated. In departure from the medieval rules, the method of hiring and promoting lecturers was also changed. The university was to be a research and teaching institution with a comprehensive range of education opportunities. While modern knowledge, especially in the field of natural sciences, was to be applied in everyday life in order to contribute to raising the economic level of the country, the development of the social sciences and the humanities was aimed at shaping a new model of the Pole, a patriot and citizen.

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The Commission of National Education’s teachers and associates: An outline of a collective portrait on the basis of the biographical dictionary

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Meissner A., Wałęga A.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

61-76

EN

This article is an attempt at outlining a collective portrait of the individuals involved in education and scientific work in the framework of the Commission of National Education. The source base that made this study possible is ‘Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (1773–1794). Słownik biograficzny’ [‘Commission of National Education (1773–1794): A Biographical Dictionary’]. The publication encompasses more than 1,900 individuals that directly participated in the education reform, ie devised the reform concept and implemented it, which is a sufficient basis for characterising the selected professional group functioning in 18th-century Poland. Owing to the fact that the biographical dictionary constitutes the main source of the presented collective portrait, this article also introduces a detailed concept of the publication that has exerted a significant influence on the eventual image of the Commission’s teachers and associates.

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Schools of the Commission of National Education’s Samogitian Department

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Buczek K.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

217-230

EN

The aim of the article is to present the state and the problems of the schools of the Commission of National Education in the Samogitian Department. The department, farthest to the north, was the smallest in terms of territory and the Duchy of Samogitia itself was ethnically and religiously diverse. The problems of the department, as well as most of its schools, concerned the poor condition of the buildings, the lack of teaching aids and the occasional insubordination of teachers and students.

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Lesser Poland Department in the Commission of National Education’s education system

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Meissner A., Pękowska M., Ślęczka R.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

143-169

EN

The Lesser Poland Department was created by the Commission of National Education in 1783. That year, the territorial organisation of the school network was established, department school authorities were appointed and teaching staff were employed. The Lesser Poland Department included the academic department school in Lublin, academic subdepartment schools in Kraków, Pińczów and Sandomierz and subdepartment schools run by religious orders in Kielce, Krasnystaw and Stężyca. This article is an attempt at characterising the educational facilities operating in the Lesser Poland Department and their organisational and educational issues with structural transformations, material base, teaching plans and programmes, textbooks, educational process and school inspections. Considerable attention was paid to the principles of youth education, school authorities, teachers and the student community. Efforts were also made to show the role of the presented facilities in local communities.

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Z Towarzystwa Jezusowego do Towarzystwa do Ksiąg Elementarnych. Myśl pedagogiczna Grzegorza Piramowicza a Ratio Studiorum

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Ziółek E. M.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

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2021

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vol. 69

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issue 2

11-27

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Grzegorz Piramowicz, an Armenian from Lviv and a Jesuit from a bourgeois family, was one of the most prominent activists of Poland’s Commission of National Education; he was also an important theoretician of pedagogical thought in the Polish Republic. In addition to his numerous and important works, Powinności nauczyciela (The Teacher’s Duties) – the first Polish methodological guide for elementary school teachers – is considered particularly valuable for the history of education in Poland. This work has been analyzed in historiography in terms of its novelty in light of methodology of educational and pedagogical work in the 18th-century school, and as a compendium of pedagogical knowledge of the time. This article examines Piramowicz’s sources of pedagogical knowledge. My comparison of the content of Powinności nauczyciela with the Jesuit Ratio studiorum, written as early as in the 16th century and used in Jesuit colleges until the dissolution of the order in 1773 clearly shows that Grzegorz Piramowicz drew mainly on his order’s tradition. In his work, he largely adopted and adapted the educational regulations in force in Jesuit colleges to the needs of elementary schools. It should also be added that he drew on his own teaching experience, which enabled him to creatively adopt these principles and create the first methodological guide for teachers in Poland, in which theory was supported by the author’s own experience.

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Grzegorz Piramowicz – Ormianin lwowski, wywodzący się z mieszczańskiej rodziny jezuita jest jednym z najwybitniejszych działaczy Komisji Edukacji Narodowej, a także ważnym teoretykiem myśli pedagogicznej w Rzeczypospolitej. Obok wielu ważnych dzieł, które pozostawił po sobie, za szczególnie istotne dla historii wychowania w Polsce uznaje się Powinności nauczyciela – pierwszy polski poradnik metodyczny dla nauczycieli szkół elementarnych. Dzieło to było analizowane w historiografii z punktu widzenia jego nowatorstwa w aspekcie metody pracy edukacyjnej i wychowawczej w XVIII-wiecznej szkole i jako kompendium ówczesnej wiedzy pedagogicznej. Niniejszy artykuł natomiast został poświęcony dociekaniu źródeł wiedzy pedagogicznej Piramowicza. Porównanie treści Powinności nauczyciela z jezuickim Ratio studiorum, opracowanym jeszcze w XVI w. i wykorzystywanym w jezuickich kolegiach do kasaty w 1773 r., wyraźnie pokazuje, że Grzegorz Piramowicz czerpał głównie z tradycji swojego zakonu. W swoim dziele, w dużej mierze przejął i dostosował do potrzeb szkoły elementarnej przepisy wychowawcze obowiązujące w kolegiach jezuickich. Należy przy tym dodać, że czerpał on z własnego doświadczenia nauczycielskiego, co umożliwiło mu twórcze przejęcie tych zasad i stworzenie pierwszego w Polsce poradnika metodycznego dla nauczycieli, w którym teoria wsparta była doświadczeniem własnym autora.

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Ideały wychowawcze w edukacji oświeceniowej (w perspektywie historii intelektualnej). Z dziejów Komisji Edukacji Narodowej

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Janeczek S.

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2015

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vol. 6

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issue 2

5-37

PL

Artykuł omawia ideały wychowawcze w szkołach Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (KEN) w dobie oświecenia na tle europejskim. Wykorzystuje metody historii kultury intelektualnej (intellectual history), które umożliwiają poszerzenie tradycyjnej historii oświaty i wychowania o wymiar społeczno-kulturowy. Działania Komisji, podobnie jak poprzedzające ją reformy przeprowadzone w Rzeczypospolitej na gruncie szkolnictwa kościelnego w połowie XVIII wieku, wpisują się w analogiczne zmiany na gruncie ogólnoeuropejskim. Podobny był ich duch, godzący nowożytny utylitaryzm – odpowiedni do potrzeb absolutystycznych państw, które przejmowały troskę o oświatę od grup wyznaniowych – z integralną wizją szkoły, w której elementem fundamentalnym jest wychowanie moralne zespolone z religijnym. Mimo przejawów pewnego racjonalizmu i naturalizmu w duchu epoki religia pozostała fundamentem moralności, a ta podstawą ładu społecznego. Artykuł potwierdza ideę tzw. długiego trwania (longue durée), ukazując ciągłość wychowawczą w szkole nowożytnej, mimo odmiennych deklaracji ideowych.

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This paper discusses the ideals of education present in the schools of the Commission of National Education (Pol. KEN) in the period of the Enlightenment against the backdrop of Europe. It applies the methods of intellectual history which permit to expand the traditional history of education and formation by the social and cultural dimensions. The activities of the Commission, like the preceding reforms in the mid-eighteenth century Polish Republic (based on church education), are part and parcel of the European reforms. They were similar in terms of their spirit that combined a critical approach to modern utilitarianism—appropriate to the needs of the absolutist states that were concerned about education in the manner of religious groups— with an integral vision of school whose fundamental element was moral formation in combination with religious formation. Despite certain manifestations of rationalism and naturalism in line with the spirit of the epoch, religion remained the foundation of morality, and the latter in turn was the foundation of social order. This paper confirms the idea of the so-called long duration (longue durée), and shows that in spite of different ideological declarations we observe educational continuity in the modern school.

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Oświeceniowa kultura naukowa w kontekście filozoficznym. Z dziejów Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (cz. 2)

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Janeczek S.

Roczniki Filozoficzne

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2015

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vol. 63

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issue 4

67-114

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Artykuł przestawia dydaktykę KEN w zakresie sformułowań programowych, podręczników i praktyki dydaktycznej, ukazanych na tle reform charakterystycznych dla ówczesnej szkoły europejskiej. W ukazaniu realiów kultury naukowej funkcjonującej w szkolnictwie zarządzanym przez Komisję skupiono się na oddaniu specyfiki styku filozofii i nowożytnej nauki, nieraz znacznie odbiegającego od realiów współczesnych. Nauczanie w szkołach KEN należy niewątpliwie do programowo eklektycznej kultury intelektualnej oświecenia, godzącej szkołę tradycyjną z postulatami nowożytnymi. Postawa ta ujawniła się w całym szkolnictwie europejskim, a więc nie tylko we Francji, przodującej przynajmniej w zakresie deklaracji programowych, ale zwłaszcza w centralistycznie reformowanej oświacie w monarchii habsburskiej. Jest ona także właściwa tak reprezentacyjnemu świadectwu ówczesnej kultury naukowej, jakim była Wielka Encyklopedia Francuska, do której KEN wprost nawiązywała. Szkoły KEN odchodzą od utożsamiania kształcenia realnego z kursem filozofii, co nasili się wraz z upowszechnianiem się empirystycznej epistemologii, owocującego fenomenalizmem rugującym podejście ufundowane na filozofii, w szkole tradycyjnej właściwe nowożytnemu arystotelizmowi chrześcijańskiemu. W szkole europejskiej wzbogacano studium językowo-humanistyczne o kształcenie matematyczno-przyrodnicze, zachowując kurs filozofii w duchu philosophia recentiorum, przynajmniej na poziomie uniwersyteckim. Filozofia ta krytycznie asymilowała elementy nowożytnej epistemologii, a zwłaszcza osiągnięcia nowożytnego przyrodoznawstwa. Postawa ta była charakterystyczna także dla szkoły zreformowanej w połowie wieku XVIII na teranie Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów, zwłaszcza przez zakon pijarów i jezuitów. KEN wprowadziła natomiast samoistne przedmioty matematyczno-przyrodnicze, co zaowocowało ograniczeniem wykładu filozofii, którą w szkołach średnich sprowadzono do kursu logiki i ukierunkowanej praktycznie etyki, a na uniwersytetach do prawa naturalnego z odniesieniami społecznymi, politycznymi i ekonomicznymi. Zaowocowało to nawet odejściem od tradycyjnej struktury uniwersytetu, z propedeutycznym wydziałem filozoficznym, gdy w duchu fizjokratycznego porządku fizycznego i moralnego ukonstytuowano dwuczłonową strukturę szkół wyższych. Tym niemniej presja tzw. długiego trwania (longue durée) tłumaczy zachowanie elementów filozoficznych nawet w przyrodoznawstwie, dzielone z ówczesną szkołą europejską, a więc w formie interpretacji korzystającej z kategorii substancji i jej właściwości, a nawet koncepcji duszy zwierzęcej.

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The paper depicts the didactic approach of the Commission of National Education (Pol. KEN). It shows curricula policy, textbooks, and didactic practice against the backdrop of reforms characteristic of the then European school. In presenting the reality of learned culture in education managed by the Commission attention is focused on the specific borderline between philosophy and modern science, the areas that many a time diverged from contemporary circumstances. Teaching in the KEN schools undoubtedly belongs to the policy of eclectic intellectual culture of the Enlightenment that seeks to reconciliate the traditional school with modern postulates. This attitude was manifested throughout European education, therefore not only in France, which was leading at least in her policy declarations, but especially in the Habsburg monarchy whose education was under centralistic reformation. It was also proper to the then learned culture of the Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts, on which the KEN would directly draw. The KEN schools diverge from the identification real education with a course of philosophy, a fact became more prominent together with the popularisation of empiristic epistemology that resulted in phenomenalism; the latter eliminated the approach founded on philosophy in the traditional school, the approach proper to modern Christian Aristotelianism. The European school of linguistic and humanistic studies was enriched by mathematics and natural sciences, whereas a course in philosophy in the spirit of philosophia recentiorum was maintained, at least at the university level. This philosophy assimilated some elements of modern epistemology in a critical manner, especially the accomplishments of modern natural science. Such attitude was also characteristic of the school reformed in the mid-eighteenth century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, especially by the Piarists and Jesuits. The KEN introduced independent mathematical and natural science subjects, a fact that resulted in limitation of the course of philosophy which in secondary education was reduced to a course in logic and practical ethics, and at universities to natural law with some social, political, and economic references. This resulted in departure from the traditional structure of university, with a propaedeutic faculty of philosophy, where a two-part structure of higher education was constituted in the spirit of physiocratic physical order and moral order. Nevertheless the pressure of the socalled long duration (longue durée) accounts for the maintenance of philosophical elements in Enlightenment school, even in natural science, in the form of interpretation that takes advantage of the category of substance and its properties, and even of the conception of animal soul.

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Oświeceniowa kultura naukowa w kontekście filozoficznym. Z dziejów Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (Cz. 1)

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Janeczek S.

Roczniki Filozoficzne

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2015

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vol. 63

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issue 4

35-65

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Artykuł przestawia dydaktykę KEN, koncentrując się na ukazaniu reform oświatowych charakterystycznych dla epoki oświecenia. W szczególności ukazuje specyfikę styku ówczesnej filozofii i nowożytnej nauki, stopniowo wyzwalającej się z hegemonii filozofii. Wskazuje na dominujący podówczas duch utylitaryzmu, a w warstwie metodologicznej – programowy eklektyzm. Postawa ta ujawniła się w całym szkolnictwie europejskim, a więc nie tylko we Francji, przodującej przynajmniej w zakresie deklaracji programowych, ale zwłaszcza w centralistycznie reformowanej oświacie w monarchii habsburskiej. Jest ona także właściwa tak reprezentacyjnemu świadectwu ówczesnej kultury naukowej, jakim była Wielka Encyklopedia Francuska, do której nawiąże wprost KEN. W szkole europejskiej wzbogacano studium językowo-humanistyczne o kształcenie matematyczno-przyrodnicze, zachowując kurs filozofii w duchu philosophia recentiorum, przynajmniej na poziomie uniwersyteckim. Filozofia ta krytycznie asymilowała elementy nowożytnej epistemologii, a zwłaszcza osiągnięcia nowożytnego przyrodoznawstwa. Podejście to było typowe dla szkolnictwa reformowanego w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów przez środowiska wyznaniowe, zwłaszcza zakon pijarów i jezuitów. Z czasem coraz bardziej upowszechni się empirystyczna epistemologia, owocująca fenomenalizmem kwestionującym możliwość uprawiania maksymalistycznie pojętej filozofii w formie nowożytnego arystotelizmu chrześcijańskiego funkcjonującego w szkole tradycyjnej. Mimo krytyki tego modelu kształcenia, presja tzw. długiego trwania (longue durée) tłumaczy zachowanie w szkole oświeceniowej elementów filozoficznych nawet w przyrodoznawstwie, w formie interpretacji korzystającej z kategorii substancji i jej właściwości, a nawet koncepcji duszy zwierzęcej.

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This paper depicts the didactic approach of the Commission of National Education (Pol. KEN). It focuses on the educational reforms characteristic of the Age of the Enlightenment. In particular, it shows the specific character of the then philosophy and modern science that gradually liberated itself from the hegemony of philosophy. It pinpoints the spirit of utilitarianism that dominated at that time, and in its methodological aspect policy eclecticism. This attitude was manifested throughout European education, therefore not only in France, which was leading at least in her policy declarations, but especially in the Habsburg monarchy whose education was under centralistic reformation. It was also proper to the then learned culture of the Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts, on which the KEN would draw. The European school of linguistic and humanistic studies was enriched by mathematics and natural sciences, whereas a course in philosophy in the spirit of philosophia recentiorum was maintained, at least at the university level. This philosophy assimilated some elements of modern epistemology in a critical manner, especially the accomplishments of modern natural science. Such approach was typical of reformed education in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by religious milieus, especially the Piarists and Jesuits. In the course of time empiristic epistemology became more and more popular and bore fruit in the form of phenomenalism which questioned the pursuit of philosophy maximalistically understood in the form of modern Christian Aristotelianism in the traditional school. Despite criticism of this model of education, the pressure of the so-called long duration (longue durée) accounts for the maintenance of philosophical elements in Enlightenment school, even in natural science, in the form of interpretation that takes advantage of the category of substance and its properties, and even of the conception of animal soul.

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Kamińska J.

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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2018

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vol. 55

231-255

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This article presents an outline of the activities of schools in the Lithuanian Department, which included schools in Grodno, Białystok, Merkinė, Lida, Vidzy, Vilnius, Vishnyeva, Pastavy, Shchuchyn and Vawkavysk. The leading role was played by the Grodno school, which became a department school, supervising all lower, subdepartment schools. All of the schools of the Lithuanian Department were supervised by the Lithuanian Main School in Vilnius. Working conditions at the schools were generally difficult as the buildings, mostly post-Jesuit, were considerably dilapidated due to neglect but also fires and floods, so they required provisional repairs or general refurbishments. Due to the need to provide an appropriate environment for learning, the rectors and prorectors demanded more funds from the Commission of National Education for renovation purposes. One of the primary tasks of the schools was to educate future citizens, enlightened, capable and responsible for the country. They sought to accomplish that objective by incorporating ideas of an explicitly national and patriotic nature in the syllabus. Great importance lay in the teaching of the Polish language, literature and speech. The formation of man and citizen was helped by history and geography as well as mathematical and natural sciences that demonstrated scientific achievements and drew attention to the functionality of science in everyday life.

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