Przychodzińska Maria, married name Kaciczak, *20 March 1927 Skarżysko-Kamienna, †14 September 2019 Warsaw or Grodzisk Mazowiecki (she was undergoing treatment there periodically, finding better care than in Warsaw hospitals), Polish teacher and music theory teacher. In 1951, she graduated in law from the University of Warsaw, and in 1962, she completed her studies at the Faculty of Education of the State Higher School of Music (now the Chopin University of Music) in Warsaw. In 1967, she obtained a doctorate in music education at the University of Warsaw (supervisor: B. Suchodolski), where she also obtained her habilitation in 1978. In 1951–58, she worked at the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art, supervising the amateur artistic movement; from 1960 to 1968, she conducted choirs and taught music classes at the 3-year Teacher Training College in Warsaw; from 1968–74, as a senior lecturer, she trained music teachers at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the University of Warsaw; from 1972–90, she worked at the Instytut Doskonalenia Nauczycieli Ministerstwa Oświaty i Wychowania [Teacher Training Institute of the Ministry of Education and Upbringing] (since 1989, Centrum Doskonalenia Nauczycieli im. W. Spasowskiego [the W. Spasowski Teacher Training Centre]) as an assistant professor and associate professor (1978–88), where she was awarded the title of professor in 1988. From 1991, she was a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and headed the Department of Music Education. In addition, she lectured at the Higher State School of Music in Warsaw in 1962–70 and again in 1983–91, heading the Department of Music Education Theory, and until 1993 also postgraduate studies in music education methodology for academic teachers. She also taught at the Higher School of Pedagogy in Kielce, first on a collaborative basis (1968–85) and later as a permanent employee (1988–90). She educated more than 200 master’s and six doctoral students.
Przychodzińska’s comprehensive education enabled her to focus on developing pedagogical concepts, training teachers, and conducting methodological research into music education; her innovative work had an impact on music education for children in Poland, making her an authority in the field of music pedagogy theory. Przychodzińska adapted elements of foreign systems of music education (e.g. those of Z. Kodály, Jaques-Dalcroze, and C. Orff) to Polish conditions, implementing new, empirical methods of working with children. Together with a group of colleagues, she developed a new concept of music education with a multi-faceted range of programme content and repertoire, the essence of which is the constant modernisation of programmes and textbooks, shifting from traditional singing lessons to emphasising the student’s expressive and creative performance, developing their imagination and skills, and deepening their aesthetic experiences. Przychodzińska is credited with raising the level of music education among teachers.
She was buried at Powązki Cemetery.
Literature: Bliżej muzyki, bliżej człowieka, commemorative book of M. Przychodzińska, ed. A. Białkowski and B. Smoleńska-Zielińska, Lublin 2002 (contains a complete bibliography of Przychodzińska’s works); R. Gabryś M. Przychodzińskiej koncepcje wychowania muzycznego, “Ruch Muzyczny” 1980 No. 14; B. Smoleńska Co słychać, wywiad z Przychodzińską, “Ruch Muzyczny” 1982 No. 12; B. Smoleńska-Zielińska Współczesna edukacja ma dawać szansę każdemu dziecku, wywiad z Przychodzińską, “Wychowanie Muzyczne w Szkole” 1998 No. 4.
Muzyka i wychowanie, Warsaw 1969, 2nd ed. 1979
Dziecko i muzyka, Warsaw 1973, 2nd ed. revised 1981
Zrozumieć muzykę, Warsaw 1984
Polskie koncepcje powszechnego wychowania muzycznego. Tradycje – współczesność, Warsaw 1979, 2nd ed. revised 1987 (postdoctoral thesis)
Wychowanie muzyczne – idee, treści, kierunki rozwoju, Warsaw 1989
Drogi do muzyki. Metodyka i materiały repertuarowe, with E. Lipską, Warsaw 1999
approx. 50 articles and scientific contributions, including:
Integracja zajęć plastycznych i muzycznych w procesie kształcenia kultury estetycznej uczniów, with A. Trojanowską, in: Integracja wychowania estetycznego w teorii i praktyce, ed. I. Wojnar, “Studia Pedagogiczne” 1975 No. 34
Z badań nad percepcją muzyczną dzieci…, “Studia Estetyczne” 1976 No. 13
Percepcja muzyki i modele przeżycia estetycznego w polskiej literaturze z zakresu estetyki i psychologii muzyki, “Biuletyn ISME” 1976 Nos. 1, 2
Wielka sztuka i małe dzieci – akceleracja uczuć estetycznych i ogólnych w procesie wychowania estetycznego, “Biuletyn ISME” 1976 No. 2
Polské koncepcie všeobecné hudební výchovy, in: O uměni a výchové. Teorie a praxe estetické výchovy v Polsku, ed. B. Suchodolski and I. Wojnar, Prague 1981
Wielość wartości w muzyce a wychowanie muzyczne, “Oświata i Wychowanie” 1981 Nos. 1, 3, 4
O potrzebie narodowej koncepcji wychowania muzycznego, in: W kręgu problematyki wychowania muzycznego, ed. Z. Burowska, Krakow 1982
Metodyka wychowania muzycznego – dydaktyka muzyki. Status metodologiczny, in: Podstawy teoretyczne wychowania muzycznego, ed. B. Smoleńska-Zielińska, Warsaw 1984
Edukacja muzyczna, in: Wychowanie estetyczne młodego pokolenia, eds. I. Wojnar and W. Pielasińska, Warsaw 1989
Music in Education. Current Condition and Risks, in: Clutter of the Time of Transformation, conference proceedings, Poznań 1998
15 textbooks for teachers and students, as well as methodological guides for teachers, published between (przez Państwowy Zakłady Wydawnictw Szkolnych [National Organization of School Publications], now Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne [Polish Publishing House for School and Pedagogical Books]), reprinted and revised many times (first for 4th grade of primary school Nuty moje, nuty, and E. Lipska, 1970)
2 guides to the school record library (first guide published in 1966, 2nd ed. in 1969, second guide published in 1988), curricula for all levels of music education, 40 radio and television programmes for music teachers (printed in “Oświata i Wychowanie”), specialisation programmes for teachers, 40 reviews of books on music for young people, several dozen publications based on papers presented at international and national conferences on culture, aesthetics, music education theory and teacher training.
participation in 4 expert evaluations, including Kształcenie nauczycieli muzyki w wyższych szkołach pedagogicznych i uniwersytetach, with A. Białkowski, Lublin 2002
