Title:

Schools of the Commission of National Education’s Lithuanian Department

Subtitle:

Szkoły Wydziału Litewskiego Komisji Edukacji Narodowej

Creator:

Kamińska, Janina

Publisher:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2018

Date on-line publ.:

2018.12.31

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Commission of National Education ; Lithuanian Department ; Grodno ; Białystok ; Merkinė ; Lida ; Vidzy ; Vilnius ; Vishnyeva ; Pastavy ; Shchuchyn ; Vawkavysk

Abstract:

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.

Relation:

Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

Volume:

55

Start page:

231

End page:

255

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

pdf

Resource Identifier:

0080-4754

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, full text available at:

Copyright holder:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN

Original in:

Library of the Institute for the History of Science PAS

Access:

Open