Poland

The work relations to Poland go back to the year 1993 when Mrs Miksza, PhD, academic lecturer at the University of Lódz, was on a study visit at the Montessori Centre in Münster. Today, Mrs Miksza, PhD is head of the Polish Montessori Association and works as a teacher at a Montessori school. In 1995, Prof. Ludwig participated in an international congress on Alternative Education in Lódz by giving a lecture on Montessori. The congress was led by Prof. Boguslaw Sliwerski, PhD, who today holds a chair of Educational Theory and Alternative Education. In 1996/1997, Prof. Sliwerski and Mrs Miksza, PhD participated in the international series of lectures that was mentioned above. In 1998, Prof. Ludwig gave lectures and visited Montessori facilities in Lódz, Warsaw and Wroclaw. Prof. Holtstiege repeatedly travelled to Poland in order to deliver lectures and to participate in Montessori training courses that were partly organised in the “Hedwig Academy” near Wroclaw. In this academy, a seminar on the educational theories of Maria Montessori and Janusz Korczak, which was led by Prof. Ludwig and Reinhard Fischer, PhD and to which Prof. Sliwerski contributed, was held with students of the universities of Münster and Belgorod in the summer semester 2000.

Miksza, Malgorzata: Die Entwicklung der Montessori-Pädagogik in Polen seit 1990, in: Montessori 35 (1997), H.3-4, p.117-124, ferner in: Ludwig, Harald (ed.): Montessori-Pädagogik in der Diskussion, Freiburg: Herder 1999, p.261-270

Prof. Dr. Boguslaw Sliwerski, Katedra Teorii Wychowania, ul. Kopernika 55, PL-90-553 Lodz, e-mail: b.sliwerski@plusnet.pl

Prof. Margozata Miksza, Polskie Stowarzyszenie Montessori, ul. Jaracza 68, PL-90-251 Lodz, Tel. 0048-42-631-98-49 und 633-35-47, Fax: 0048-42-684-0507, e-mail: marekmiksza@wp.pl