Uczniowie jezuickich instytucji edukacyjnych w Galicji w XIX wieku : portret zbiorowy - BEATA TOPIJ-STEMPIŃSKA (Autor) (Kraków, 2019)
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Publikacja recenzowana
The publication entitled Students of Jesuit Educational Institutions in Galicia in the 19th Century: A Collective Portrait is a monograph of historical- pedagogical nature. The dissertation is related to my research on the history of educational institutions. One of such institutions is a school which gathers a social group, i.e. a school community, the most important part of which are students themselves. School reality may be perceived from different points of view. One of them focuses on the school as a specific place of creating a new group of people, i.e. the student community. Due to its nature, such a community – because of strictly established time frames – is unstable and changing, but it always has some permanent features that make it possible to distinguish it from other groups. It is because each student is a person with their own, individual features, but – at the same time – he or she is a part of a community of people who, due to their long, common stay in one place (often for several years) and similar school experience, have much in common. Therefore, the objective of my research is the attempt to learn about the students of the Jesuit educational institutions in the 19th century Galicia against the background of educational, social, political, and cultural changes of the time, as well as to create the collective portrait of those students. My research area includes the period of more than 90 years. In the first half of the 19th century, the Jesuits conducted a junior high school, a boarding school, and a study of philosophy in Ternopil in 1820– 1848, as well as a junior high school in Nowy Sącz (1838–1848) and a boarding school for gentry in Lviv (1839–1848). In the second half of the 19th century they also opened a boarding school for gentry in Ternopil (1853–1887) and the Scientific and Educational Centre in Bąkowice near Khyriv (1886–1914). The starting point of my research is the year 1820, when the Jesuits first appeared in the country of the Habsburg dynasty, and the final date of my analyses is 1914. Such institutions brought up and educated a lot of students who later played an important role in different areas of political and social life, not only in Galicia. Taking into account the subject of the dissertation, as I have already mentioned, what I presented in my work are the students of the Jesuit educational institutions, and – more precisely – their collective portrait. Thus, I attempted to capture common and characteristic features of that community. At the same time, I presented it within a broader educational context, from the perspective of the place and people (teaching staff ), and the adopted educational methods in the Jesuit schools. One of the main stages of the adopted procedure of biographical research was collecting and ordering the basic biographical data. I had to order them according to the main biographical aspects: personal data (first name and surname, date and place of birth and death, social origin); education (schools, university) and further activity (professional, social, political activities). One of the most important aspects included specifying time and territorial frames of the research, and to specify the period in which the analysed community members stayed within the same school environment. Adopting such a course of research procedure, I searched for important biographical data in government files (state and school ones), diaries, obituaries, earlier biographical works and visual documents. I believe that such kind of analysis makes it possible to learn as much as possible about a given community of students and to outline their collective portrait. From the point of view of the adopted research assumptions, it was important to capture the role and meanings of those student communities in the life of the Galician society in the 19th century. Drawing such a portrait seems possible because the students of those institutions were not only linked by the place of studyin
Keywords: pedagogika; biografie zbiorowe; Chyrów; gimnazjum; historia wychowania; konwikt; Nowy Sącz; pedagogika; szkolnictwo; Tarnopol; uczniowie