Correspondence training as a method of education – in the period of its heyday and dissemination

Abstract

The assumption of this article is to present correspondence education as a method of self-education work, a specific feature of which is the indirect correspondence contact between the teacher and the student. There are several methodological variations, which are the subject of the following article, i.e. their common feature is the specific way of contact mentioned above. The article covers the period of the development of correspondence education in the 1950s–1970s, which was a time of intensive development of this form of adult education not only in Poland, but also abroad. At the same time, the text is an attempt to show the importance of distance learning in the development of today’s distance education. From the presentation of the methodological and teaching solutions of the first correspondence schools, it can be concluded that the foundations of the teaching methodology of distance education were formed in the first correspondence schools and are valid to this day.