| dc.description.abstract | The author of the article discusses the biography and works of Professor Dr. Hab. Jan
Kulpa, one of the first academic employees of the Literature and Polish Language Didactics
Department of the Higher School of Pedagogy (WSP) in Krakow, a distinguished teacher of
teachers and scientist, a person of outstanding character, most of all – of enthusiasm, creative
passion, empathy and unusual kindness.
In his theoretical reflection on teaching adults, children and teenagers, Professor Kulpa took
into consideration the elementary methodological problems concerning both the analysis
of prose, poetry and popular scientific texts, and teaching language skills. He competently
discussed issues in praxeology and regionalism; he was also an eager advocate of permanent
education, propagated nowadays by leading pedagogues.
Although in Professor’s huge legacy of writings (over 500 publications) the most numerous are
the works popularizing the newest didactic and pedagogical knowledge, a clear and valuable
area in his bibliography is constituted by scientific works dealing with the attempts to create
foundations of scientific didactics of Polish in the elementary school. This area also includes
many treatises on pedagogy, concerning, among others, the problems of teacher training,
permanent education, problem-focused teaching, and acquisition of the skills necessary to
learn and study. | en_EN |
