Pedagogy and Educators from Margin in the Face of the Main Current of Socialist Pedagogy Cover Image

Pedagogika i pedagodzy z marginesu wobec głównego nurtu pedagogiki socjalistycznej
Pedagogy and Educators from Margin in the Face of the Main Current of Socialist Pedagogy

Author(s): Marian Nowak
Subject(s): Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: pedagogy; educators from the margin; socialist/communist pedagogy; humanistic pedagogy; ideology

Summary/Abstract: The author subjects the closer analysis of the situation of the pedagogy and her grows in Poland in the period of the Polish People’s Republic (after the II World War), in which we happen certain group of pedagogues and educators who Robert Kwaśnica qualified as the „educators of the margin” next to the educators of the main current. Characterizing the historical, and social, and ideological background of the exchanged period, the author seeks the answers on the question about the process of the maturation of the consciousness of illusions of the reformers of education and their experts, showing on propagandist enrolling this ideology in the pretenses of continuing the positivistic model of the production of scientific knowledge. Near many, which became „enchanted and seduced” by socialist pedagogy, it did not lack these, which they be able to the masters of the period of their youth and the humanistic tradition of the pedagogy of the interwar period keep faithfulness. Transformations what are started in Poland after 1989, they yielded the fruit the special shift to bring “educators from the margin” to the center of pedagogical thought (from outskirts) and yielded the fruit of the special intellectual, civil and moral obligation to participation in The Great Change.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 277-295
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish