Educating Children in Conversation with Janusz Korczak: Pedagogy of Respect and the rights of children applied in the orphanage in Warsaw from 1912 to - Hardcover

by Gunda Schneider (Author)

The Polish Doctor and Pedagogue Janusz Korczak was familiar with the biblical tradition, as is the author. The biblical understanding of life as an enjoyable gift influences Korczak's living with children equally as the author's. There are no educational recipes. Discussed are the meaning of time, responsibility, forgiving, death, God and prayer.

Author Biography

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.