Lucyna Dziaczkowska

This article is an attempt to analyse the axiological aspects of the works by the classics of Polish general pedagogy. Kazimierz Sośnicki and Stefan Kunowski, were the creators of works constituting the foundation of this subdiscipline in our country. Creating general pedagogy as an objectified, meta-theoretical, analytical discipline, they were somewhat obliged to a certain distance towards the matter of values and evaluation in upbringing. At the same time, each of these pedagogues was the author of an original theory of upbringing, against which one can trace their specific approach to axiological matters and the presence of the latter in upbringing reality. An analysis of the works of the selected pedagogues on the subject of values and evaluation leads to questions about contemporary problems of pedagogy and upbringing practices in this area.

The Principles of Education in the Light of Zygmunt Mysłakowski’s Pedagogical Thoughts

It is quite rare that the term “principles of education” is used in contemporary pedagogy. At the same time, concrete educational activities or processes require the right actions, i.e., actions that will foster participant development within the educational reality. This article constitutes an attempt to decode the principles of education in the light of Zygmunt Mysłakowski’s works, and to pinpoint the determining factors which could have led to their formulation. These conditions influenced the practice of pedagogy in Poland, and were not insignificant for the way in which the principles of education were understood and constructed by pedagogues. The author points to some areas in which Mysłakowski searched for these principles. They are pedeutology, general pedagogy, and the pedagogue’s own theory of education. In the concluding part of the article, values are cited as one of the key categories for Mysłakowski in formulating his principles of education.