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PROGRAM OF KORCZAK

"Following Korczak"
2005/2006, winter term, 30 hours., DMU, DL
Interdepartmental Faculty - Department of Pedagogy at University of Warsaw and the Academy of Special Education


Objectives
Education realm found in Janusz Korczak's pedagogy far exceeds the traditional education notion. It encompasses philosophy, culture, social life, religion etc.
Following Korczak seminar is a form of attaining Korczak's heritage and an attempt to apply the Old Doctor's ideas to the problems of today's world.
The syllabus includes studying Korczak's literary outcome and tracing multicultural Warsaw of the interwar period, as well as time of Holocaust.

Curriculum
  1. Text analysis :

    • How to Love a Child
    • A Child's Right to be Respected
    • Children of the Street
    • A Drawing Room Child
    • Jocular Pedagogy
    • Alone with God. Prayers of Those Who Do Not Pray

  2. Trips: sites and institutions

    1. 1. The Memory Track of Jewish Martyrdom and Fight: Umschlagplatz 1940-1943 (Ghetto Heroes' Statue - Szmul Zygielbojm Square - Jewish Military Organization Bunker - Umschlagplatz; Zamenhoffa - Stawki )
    2. Jewish Cemetery, Okopowa 49/51
    3. Janusz Korczak Orphanage, Jaktorowska 6 (Krochmalna 92)
    4. Jewish Historical Institute, Tłomackie str.

  3. Movies :

    1. A. Wajda, Korczak
    2. Photoamateur
    3. Other documentaries

Literary
  • Sources :
    • J. Korczak, A Drawing Room Child. From Korczak Selected Texts. Selection by A. Lewin. Vol. IV. Warsaw 1978, pp. 15-200 (selected excerpts)
    • J. Korczak, How to Love a Child. The Child's Right to Be Respected. Warsaw 2002; also other editions, e.g. Selected Texts, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 61-382.
    • J. Korczak Children of the Street. From Korczak Works,Vol .I. Warsaw, pp. 43-227 (selected excerpts)
    • J. Korczak, Jocular Pedagogy. From: Korczak Selected Texts, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 241-319 (selected excerpts)
    • J. Korczak Alone with God.( Prayers of Those Who Do Not Pray. From Korczak Selected Texts, Vol. IV. op. cit., pp. 263 - 272

  • Publications on Korczak
    • J. Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, L. Hońdo (ed.), Why Should We Teach about Holocaust? 2nd Edition, Kraków 2005
    • S. Bruchfeld, P.A. Levine, Tell Ye Your Children... A book about the Holocaust in Europe 1933-1945. Stockholm 1998
    • M. Gilbert, Holocaust. People, Documents, Memory. Warsaw.
    • M. Falkowska, Janusz Korczak:Calendar of Life, Social and Literary Activity. Warsaw 1989.
    • B. Smolińska-Theiss, Childhood - a Changing Social Category. "Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze" 2002, no 4.
    • W. Theiss, Janusz Korczak - Political Profile. "Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny" 1994, no 3.

Tutors:
  • Assoc. Prof. Wiesław Theiss,
  • Assoc. Prof. of APS Barbara Smolińska-Theiss
  • MA Magdalena Kuleta-Hulboj
  • MA Marta Wiatr

A list of the participants and guests:
  • Academy of Special Pedagogy
    1. Banasiewicz Magdalena
    2. Bru¶k Natalia
    3. Ciechowicz Katarzyna
    4. Gębicka Grazyna
    5. Jaroszewicz Małgorzata
    6. Kaliszewska Joanna
    7. Smędzik Karolina
    8. Szachnowska Joanna
    9. Szczerba Elżbieta
    10. Wysocka Violetta
    11. Nosażewska Małgprzata
    12. Cyrankowska Jolanta

  • Warsaw University - Departament of Pedagogy
    1. Balcerzak Natalia
    2. Chmielewska Aleksandra
    3. Galiński Grzegorz
    4. Gilla Anna
    5. Głowacka Olga
    6. Grabiec Małgorzata
    7. Janiszek Monika
    8. Jaworska Agnieszka
    9. Karwowska Karolina
    10. Kochanek Paulina
    11. Kosieradzka Katarzyna
    12. Krawczyk Anna
    13. Król Patrycja
    14. Krynicka Zuzanna
    15. Kwa¶na Dorota
    16. Niewiadomska Anna
    17. Piesniewska Aneta
    18. Radomińska Dorota
    19. Sira Jana
    20. ¦wiercz Milena
    21. Załęska Olga
    22. Monika Brzostek - Wydział Polonistyki
    23. Anna Le¶niak - Wydział Polonistyki
A trip around Warsaw :
  • Movie
  • Photos

     
     
Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej
ul. Szczesliwicka 40
02-353 Warsaw
tel: 022 658 00 69
e-mail: UNESCO-APS@aps.edu.pl