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Wanda Szuman or Szumanówna (3 April 1890 – 1 December 1994) was a Polish educator. She was a "pioneer of special education in Poland" and worked particularly with orphans and children with special needs. She also participated in the underground education movement during World War II, teaching subjects that were forbidden by law at the time. She won multiple awards for her teaching during her lifetime.
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Wanda Szuman or Szumanówna (3 April 1890 – 1 December 1994) was a Polish educator. She was a "pioneer of special education in Poland" and worked particularly with orphans and children with special needs. She also participated in the underground education movement during World War II, teaching subjects that were forbidden by law at the time. She won multiple awards for her teaching during her lifetime.
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Biography Szuman was born on 3 April 1890 in Toruń, Poland (then Prussia), and died on 1 December 1994, at the age of 104. Her mother was Eugenia Gumpert, a social activist, her father was surgeon Leon Szuman, and she was one of seven children; among her brothers Stefan Szuman became a professor of psychology, Jerzy Szuman became a professor of agriculture, and Henryk Antoni Szuman was a priest who perished during the World War II. Her mother died in 1895 and her father married her aunt, Emilia Osiecka (née Gumpert). Szuman attended the Sacred Heart Sisters' Gymnasium in Lviv. In 1911, she went to Kraków and graduated from a private teacher training school for women. Around that time, she was already engaged in carrying out educational activities herself, including underground education in the Polish language (at that time illegal in Prussia). In 1914, she co-founded Wełnianka, an education club for young women. After Poland regained independence in the aftermath of World War I, Szuman became a Polish national. She also became involved in various educational activities in the new Poland, initially in the Toruń region. She was involved with a number of educational NGOs of that time. Later, she…
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Recognition She is "considered a pioneer of special education in Poland". Szuman was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1923, described as "referentka kuratorjum szkolnego pomorskie" (clerk to the Pomeranian school board), and in 1992 was given honorary citizenship of the city of Toruń. She also received Honorary Gold Badge of the Polish Association of the Blind (1966), Medal of the Polish Society for Combating Disability (1984), Badge of the Polish Teachers' Union "For Secret Teaching" (1985), and the Order of the Smile (1986). Two schools in Toruń are named in her honour: a high school (VII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Wandy Szuman), and elementary school (Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 16 im. Wandy Szuman w Toruniu), as is a nursery school. A book about her, Wanda Szuman—pedagog i andragog specjalny: szkice do portretu (Wanda Szuman—Child and Adult Special Educator: Sketches for a Portrait), was published in 2009 by Beata Borowska-Beszta (ISBN 978-83-7204-785-4).
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Selected publications Komisja Edukacyjna pierwszem ministerstwem oświaty w Europie [The Education Commission as the first ministry of education in Europe], 1919 Zum Problem der Waisenerziehung [On the problem of raising orphans], 1929 Rola opiekunów społecznych [The role of social workers], 1930 Testy inteligencji Ch. Bühler dla niemowląt [Intelligence tests Ch. Buhler for babies], 1930 System umieszczania sierot w rodzinach [The system of placing orphans in families], 1931 Wychowanie niewidomego dziecka [Raising a Blind Child], 1961 O dostępności rysunku dla dzieci niewidomych [About the accessibility of drawing for blind children], 1967