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Educating Children in Conversation with Janusz Korczak

Pedagogy of Respect and the rights of children applied in the orphanage in Warsaw from 1912 to 1942 and the experience with Korczak’s thoughts in the author’s family at the End of the 20th century

by Gunda Schneider (Author)
©2018 Monographs 94 Pages

Summary

The Polish Doctor and Pedagogue Janusz Korczak comes from a Jewish family. Though he did not join a religious community he was familiar with the biblical tradition, as is the author, a Christian theologian. The biblical tradition understands life as a gift, which provokes joy. Education means to live together with children as people with respect to their rights. Korczak lists the Child’s Right to Die, the Right to Today, and the Right to be what it is. These rights contain the children’s self-determination as a person, so that "they can fly". The Author reflects the education of her three children with these thoughts. There are no educational recipes or ideals. The understanding of life and time, responsibility, forgiving, belief in God and prayer, death and finitude are discussed.

Details

Pages
94
Publication Year
2018
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631763421
Language
English
Keywords
Children’s Rights Parents / Teachers God Forgiving Scolding Laughter
Published
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien 2018., 94 pp., 6 fig. b/w

Biographical notes

Gunda Schneider (Author)

G. Schneider-Flume is an ordained pastor of the Württembergische Landeskirche. She was a professor of Theological Dogmatics and Ethics at the University of Heidelberg and Jena, from 1999 to 2006 she taught at the University of Leipzig.

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