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Otwarte spotkanie władz statutowych Towarzystwa Historii Edukacji Kielce, 17 listopada 2008 r.

Nauczyciel szkoły twórczej – rzecz o Henryku Rowidzie w 65. rocznicę powołania Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie. Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa, Kraków 26–27 maja 2011

In the nineteenth century, along with the organization of institutional care and education for people with disabilities, there emerged a need to create theories in this field. Following the formation of practical and theoretical foundations of special education, it became necessary to popularize them. In Poland, this task was taken on in the Diary of the Warsaw Institute for the Deaf and the Blind. The material presented shows the problem of the dissemination of foreign institutions' achievements in the area of special education theory and practice. The basis are articles published on the pages of all the seventeen issues of this magazine. Articles concerning special education in other countries referred to such important issues as educational legislation, compulsory education, organization of the special education system, teaching methods, curricula, teaching materials and teacher training for special education. These publications were the result of the authors' own experiences, who visited foreign institutions, and were extremely important for the creation of special educators' community in Poland. They were not only informative but also constituted a form of teacher development for teachers in schools and special centers.

The paper presents articles published in the "Szkoła Specjalna" ("Special School") magazine between 1924 and 1939, devoted to the accomplishments of special education in the world. In this period, knowledge about the modern foreign accomplishments in the area of education and care for people with disabilities was conducive to better organisation of the domestic system of special education and had fundamental significance for education and in-service training of special education teachers. In the analysed period, approx. 30 articles referring to foreign accomplishments in this discipline were published in "Szkoła Specjalna."