Published : 2021-12-10

A Pole, a Teacher, a Catholic - Emma Nicolay de Caprile

and her contribution to the development of the Argentinean education system in the light of personal documentary literature and press materials

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The purpose of this article is to present Emma Nicolay de Caprile, an outstanding Polish teacher and a pioneer of the Argentinean educational system. She is a completely unknown figure in Poland, so this publication fills a gap in the research on the lives of Poles in exile, especially that Nicolay de Caprile was and still is an ambassador of Polish identity, as Argentines are aware of her roots. We will refer to the historical context and discuss the stages of formation of the Argentinean educational system in the second half of the 19th century. Against this background, we will present not only Emma Nicolay de Caprile's biography, but above all her role in promoting girls' education, and we will also discuss the method of teaching reading and writing she proposed, thanks to which the level of illiteracy in Argentina decreased significantly. Our considerations are based on Nicolay de Caprile's correspondence with the then president of Argentina, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, collected in the Archivo Histórico de la Escuela Normal Nº 1 in Buenos Aires, the memoirs of her students, and materials from both the Argentine and Polish press.

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biography, history of education in Argentina, memoirs, letters, methodology of teaching writing and reading, Emma Nicolay de Caprile



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Pielacińska, N., & Seniów, A. (2021). A Pole, a Teacher, a Catholic - Emma Nicolay de Caprile: and her contribution to the development of the Argentinean education system in the light of personal documentary literature and press materials. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna, 6(2), 341–360. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2021.06.12

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1