Open AccessActivities of Children’s Universities in Poland
Author(s) -
Łukasz Brzezicki
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia i materiały
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1733-9758
DOI - 10.7172/1733-9758.2020.32.1
Subject(s) - subsidy , institution , subject matter , government (linguistics) , subject (documents) , dimension (graph theory) , prism , mathematics education , medical education , political science , sociology , psychology , library science , pedagogy , physics , social science , medicine , computer science , curriculum , law , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , optics , pure mathematics
he article, on the basis of own research, describes the activities of Children’s Universities (UD) in Poland in the academic year 2018/2019 through the prism of issues concerning the personal and financial dimension, as well as the program offer addressed to the students. The survey involved 45 units. The results of the research indicate that the majority of units operate within the framework of higher education institution. The dominant group of lecturers were academic teachers, and the most popular form of classes were lectures, workshops, as well as demonstrations and multimedia presentations. The subject matter of the classes was biology (71%), followed by culture, art, music and art (64%), as well as physics and astronomy (58%) and computer science (58%). The activities of Children’s Universities were financed mainly from fees charged to parents (47%), subsidies from local government funds (36%), as well as funds transferred from the entities that ran the Children’s Universities (33%).