Parents and children in death education – a Kashubian context

• Authors: Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the role of parents in death education through exposure to death in the broader environment and in the context of Kashubian (a Baltic west-Slavic tribe) death rites. Home education seems to be significant, considering the critical situations embedded in every life. Understanding the reality of death is a lifelong process, thus, education about death should start early, avoiding didactic discourse and misleading concepts. The objective of this paper is to present children as competent forgers of meaning while participating in death rites, so gaining a better understanding of finality.

Keywords

EN

social studies; death education; Kashubian culture; wake; participation

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych
• Journal: Edukacja
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2(133)
• Pages: 139–149

Dates

published

2015-06-30

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf

• Institute of Educational Studies, University of Gdańsk

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Notes

http://www.edukacja.ibe.edu.pl/images/numery/2015/2-9-kurowska-susdorf-deatch-education.pdf

Identifiers

ISSN

0239-6858