Poznan democratic “O!mega school” – continuation of the British Summerhill

• Authors: Tomaszek, Beata

Abstracts

EN

The object of the consideration taken up in the article is democratic education. Introduced in the Summerhill pioneer school is still not faithfully refl ected in Poland. Over the past decade, several institutions based on ideas taken from the British school have been created. Their creation is an expression of the need to create a place where children could be educated in accordance with their own interests, in the atmosphere conducive to the development of innate predispositions. The aim of the article is to present the meaning the democratic education concept in contemporary pedagogical practice. The reader will find here a description of the theoretical and practical assumptions of the “O!mega” Poznań democratic school with reference to the concept of the Summerhill school known in research on education.

Keywords

EN

education; democratic school; Summerhill

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 576(1)
• Pages: 3-13

Dates

published

2019-04-11

Contributors

author

Tomaszek, Beata