Practical Guides for Upbringing. The issue of parenting
guides in years 1900–1939 Cover Image

Praktyczne przewodniki wychowania. Problematyka poradników wychowawczych dla rodziców z lat 1900–1939
Practical Guides for Upbringing. The issue of parenting guides in years 1900–1939

Author(s): Agnieszka Małek, Monika Nawrot-Borowska
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, Social history
Published by: Zakład Historii Edukacji w Instytucie Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: child; guidebooks; upbringing; the beginning of 20th century; Second Polish Republic

Summary/Abstract: Aim: The aim of this research is to characterize the first half of 20th-century publishers of parenting books and, most importantly, to systematize the problems coveredin those guides. Methods: Qualitative text analysis from a historical and pedagogical perspective. Results: The reconstruction and comparison of the particular tips and their merits will show the changes in people’s perception of upbringing that took place during period 1900–1939 of the development of parenting guides. Conclusions: As results from the research arrangements the guidebooks for parents contained guidelines and cautions concerning all spheres and periods of children’s lives, which made them practical guides to upbringing. From these publications both parents and child’s educators could learn about care, but also all areas of education: physical, health, moral, religious, patriotic, sexual, intellectual and playful activity.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 175-201
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: English, Polish