“And that’s how Polish woman lives” – education for women in Poland in the 16th-18th centuries. 2300-PBEP-OG

– Poland in the 16th cen. – politics, society, culture;
– theory and practice of female education in the 16th century;
– exceptional women of the 16th cen. (i.a. Anna Jagiellonka, Bona Sforza);
– the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th cen. – politics, society, culture;
– theory and practice of female education in the 17th century (house, court, mansion, monastery);
– exceptional women of the 17th cen. (i.a. Marysieńka Sobieska, Teodora Chmielecka, Anna Dorota Chrzanowska, Anna Wołodyjowska);
– the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 18th cen. – politics, society, culture;
– theory and practice of female education in the 18th century (home, ladies’ boarding schools);
–the views of the Commission of National Education on the education of women;
– exceptional women of the 18th cen. (Elżbieta Drużbacka, Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Izabella Czartoryska, Joanna Żubrowa).

Type of course

general courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

based on secondary school education

Course coordinators

Katarzyna Buczek

Learning outcomes

Knowledge:
– student knows the fundamental principles and outcomes of female education in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 16th-18th cen.
– knows important figures involved in the education for women in the Commonwealth in the 16th-18th cen.
Skills:
– student can explain the processes occurring in the education of women in the Commonwealth in the 16th-18th cen.
Attitudes:
– student understands the diversity of education in the 17th and 18th cen.
– appreciates the multiculturalism of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Assessment criteria

Attendance, in accordance with the rules of study.
Colloquium on the final

Practical placement

no exist

Bibliography

Dionizja Wawrzykowska-Wierciochowa, Rycerki i samarytanki, Warszawa 1988
Wirydiana Fiszerowa, Dzieje moje własne, Londyn 1975
Maria Dernałowiczowa, Portret Familii, Warszawa 1990
Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (pisma Komisji i o Komisji), op. St. Tync, Wrocław 1954

Additional information

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