Wybrane zagadnienia kształcenia technicznego przełomu XIX i XX wieku

Abstract

The first part of the article presents technical education in Polish schools after the Second World War. Also, it focuses on the connection between manualism and technical education. It has been highlighted that approximately 300 years ago a rapid technical development took place and human work was accompanied by mechanical energy.. The next part of the article shows technical education after the reform in 1999 focusing on the fact that the reform in September 1999 caused the recession of the school subject called ‘technology’. School should take care of a broad development of a pupil. It seems necessary to create such conditions in which pupils would have a chance to learn – better than today – how to use their knowledge in practice. Also, it seems reasonable to introduce education of work as such, perhaps with connection with a school subject ‘technology’, in order to give a graduate a real possibility to work, not only to gain theoretical knowledge.