The Lviv Pedagogium between 1937 and 1939

Abstract

This paper presents the functioning of the teacher’s training institution which has hitherto not been the subject-matter of the literature on the history of education. It has been based upon the archive documents stored at the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv. In it, the circumstances of establishing pedagogium, the organization of its work and the profile of teaching staff were presented. Pedagogium was a new, and representing a higher level than that of teacher’s training seminar, form of teacher’s training in the interwar period. It was guided by the postulate of establishing higher vocational school preparing for the job of a teacher of primary school in Poland. In the year 1928, the first three institutions of this type were established. The further development of them was stimulated by the Act of Minister Jędrzejewicz from the year 1932, abolishing teacher’s training seminars, and establishing three-year pedagogical secondary schools and two-year pedagogia instead of the former. The pedagogium in Lviv was one of eleven institutions of that kind in Poland.