John Amos Comenius’s Postulate of Shaping of Wise Beings within the Context of Developing Media Competence
John Amos Comenius’s Postulate of Shaping of Wise Beings within the Context of Developing Media Competence

Summary/Abstract: In The Great Didactic, John Amos Comenius claims that the purpose of education is an internal and external ordering of everything. We should be aware that this arrangement is also influenced by the conditions related to the times it takes place in that it depends on culture. Nowadays, we realize more and more that it also depends on the means of communication. In this respect, the beginning of the 21st century is unique because the society has technology that has changed the way it functions. The transformation that followed has also influenced education in its form and scope. However, it was assumed that certain things are immutable. This pertains to the requirement pointed out by Comenius: the necessity of shaping rational beings, as this is the only way in which people can realize their humanity, and this requirement is also the beginning of the path to eternity. The conducted analysis was of theoretical nature; it was about comparing the general indications of Comenius’s The Great Didactic with the determinants of modern life. In the first part, the basic assumptions of Comenius’s concept were established and then they were referred to the current situation, recognizing the difficulties in the implementation of these assumptions and determining the scope of competences that should be supplemented. It seems that an observation of Lukaš and Munjiz about the influential power of Comenius may be an accurate summary of these considerations: “Expecting every new period to bring radical changes both in social and pedagogical areas, we still have not moved far from the initial ideas of the founder of school system we still participate in” (Miko Lukaša, Emrika Munjiza, Education System of John Amos Comenius and Its Implications in the Modern Didactic, 41).

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