“A Good Teacher”: Outline of the Concept of Pedeutological Research by Jadwiga Zaleska (1900–1993)

Abstract

The article is part of the research area of ​​historical pedeutology. The purpose of the presented text is to reconstruct the pedeutological concept entitled A good teacher in light of the statements made by school youth written by Jadwiga Zaleska. The project was initiated at Kazimierz Sośnicki’s pedagogical seminar. The main subject of the research is the question of what makes a good teacher, the search for his characteristics and conditions for pedagogical activity. The main method of research was the historical and pedagogical analysis of archival and printed sources of the aforementioned subject of research. The first part of the text contains an outlined biography of Jadwiga Zaleska, including her educational path and pedagogical studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It also provided information about her pedagogical activity. The second part of the text presented the methodological assumptions of research on the subject of “a good teacher” from Jadwiga Zalewska’s point of view and in terms of research results, which were used to create a profile of a good teacher. From these studies a vision emerged of a teacher perceived mainly from a normative perspective. Lastly, the concluding remarks indicated the topicality of the assumptions of Jadwiga Zaleska’s project dedicated to the search for characteristic of a good teacher and the methodological correctness of its implementation.