The process of learning to read and write starts only in the first grade of primary school. Still, the early phases of this process take place in childhood. They are conditioned on appropriately prepared environment in which children grow and on the activities in which they are being engaged. The article shows how to introduce kindergarteners to the world of literacy and how important early experience of literacy is for further education.
"Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą" Wojciecha Jerzego Hasa opowiada o powrocie do dzieciństwa i wieku nastoletniego, nie jest jednak historią utkaną z tradycyjnie rozumianych wspomnień. To film o wyprawie w głąb czasu. Dla Brunona Schulza, autora pierwowzoru, dojrzewanie do dzieciństwa jest egzystencjalnym zadaniem dla każdego człowieka. I chociaż postulat ten brzmi jak element psychoanalitycznej terapii, nie otrzymujemy powierzchownego freudyzmu ani w prozie Schulza, ani w filmie Hasa. Freud chciał uwolnić swego pacjenta od ciężaru dzieciństwa i zaoferować wolność w teraźniejszości po uporaniu się z traumą wczesnych doświadczeń. Natomiast w wizji Schulza dominuje pragnienie powrotu do czasu przeszłego, ponieważ tylko tam możemy odnaleźć wolność – dziecięcą, niczym nieskrępowaną twórczość. W "Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą" wokół figur rodzicielskich nie tylko krystalizuje się ludzka osobowość, ale zostaje ujawniona filozofia czasu. Has powtarza za Schulzem, że śmierć i narodziny to dwie strony życia, podobnie jak figury Matki i Ojca. Grób i łono są źródłami czasu, stamtąd wszystko wypływa i tam powraca. Żadna miłość nie jest pierwsza, a żadna śmierć ostateczna.
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'The Hourglass Sanatorium' by Wojciech Jerzy Has tells of a return to the time of childhood and the age of adolescence. And yet it is not a story woven of memories understood in a typical way. It is a film about an expedition back into time of childhood. For Bruno Schulz, the author of the original novel, maturing into childhood is an existential challenge for every human being. Though this postulate sounds like a part of psychoanalytic therapy, we do not get superficial Freudianism in Schulz’s prose or in Has’ film. Freud wanted to release the patient from the burden of childhood and offer him the freedom in the present, once the patient dealt with the trauma of early experiences. However, in Schulz’s vision the desire to return to the past dominates, because only there we can find true freedom – in a child’s unfettered creativity. In 'The Hourglass Sanatorium' human personality and philosophy of time crystallize around parental figures. Has repeats after Schulz, that death and birth are simply two sides of life, just as the figures of Mother and Father. The grave and the womb are sources of time from which everything flows, and to which everything must return. No love is the first love, and no death is final.
The process of learning to read and write starts only in the first grade of primary school. Still, the early phases of this process take place in childhood. They are conditioned on appropriately prepared environment in which children grow and on the activities in which they are being engaged. The article shows how to introduce kindergarteners to the world of literacy and how important early experience of literacy is for further education.
The article is an overview of studies on the theme of childhood and the child as a specific literary hero of old Polish hagiography. Hagiographers tended to render the childhood of the saints within a schematic framework employing an abundant repertoire of rhetoric devices. But hagiography also gives fragmentary descriptions of customs connected with the relations between parents and children as well as with parental care and the bringing up progeny. For hagiographers childhood was above all a foretoken of the saint’s future virtues and works. The child itself, however, was not a suitable paragon to follow so hagiography rarely treated it as a hero in its own right.
As early as at the beginning of the last century, the Polish-Jewish educator, children›s author, and pedagogue Janusz Korczak called for the right of child to happy childhood. This revelatory vision was accompanied by Hellen Key, who proclaimed 20th century as the century of the child, publishing book of such title and calling for the rights of children to free growth. Unfortunately, the history of the modern world added to these humane ideas rather pessimistic post scriptum, involving children in the armed conflicts and totalitarian regimes, making them the victims of adult cruelty to an unimaginable extend. In such context, the “War Childhood” book provides a very important and exceptional pedagogical and sociological study, for it induces readers to ponder over the position and status of children in armed conflicts, with the biographical, psychological and social repercussion of the latter.
After 2016, in Polish literature for children, there appeared a few significant books presenting childhood marked by the most current trauma, namely the experience of refugees. Reading these novels prompted me to ask important questions that I am trying to answer in this paper: How and for what purpose, should we discuss the subject of war trauma with children? How is refugee childhood presented in the analysed literature? How the analysed literature talks about the hardships of war exile refugee families and the “rebuilding” of the house and the whole world by them? I conducted an analysis and interpretation of books based on the assumptions of the concept of humanistic hermeneutics. Using the assumptions of intercultural education simultaneously, I paid attention to the sensitising potential of the analysed literature (development of empathy in the youngest, awakening of conscience, altruistic attitude, provoking discussion on how much we are attentive to the other person).
This article focuses on the relationship between proverbs and pedagogical situations in bringing up children. The research deals with the life-stories that speak about the childhood in the early 20th century Finland. As research material two collections from the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki have been used. The themes of the proverbs in pedagogical speech were the following: 1) control of one’s own life and living with others; 2) work; 3) livelihood, support and care; 4) Christian way of living, and 5) proverbs without a context. As a conclusion it can be said that for a child proverbs are combinations of socio-cultural contexts, people, emotions and information in various situations. For a child as a listener the content of the proverb is, above all, connected with the situation and the person involved, and it serves primarily as a piece of concrete advice.
Childhood is a unique period of life, and it has a fundamental influence on human being’s process of development. Knowledge and experience gathered by a child has a great impact on his/her behaviour and relations with others. Identity(ies) of the child, especially its social aspect, is shaped through the acting process, in a specific social space. It is the key to understanding mechanisms taking place between an individual and society. Its form and shape are determined by a society as well as an individual depending on his/her position in the social structure. What are the commonalities and differences between the world of children of vulnerable identity and those who are brought up in “healthy” family systems? They form a separate social group and are present in various types of discourse. However, their social situation is different, much more difficult ‒ their life stories are complicated, and their firsthand experience is much bigger. What are their chances of being included in the mainstream? The purpose of the article is to find the answer to the question
Tematem artykułu jest analiza wizerunku młodego pokolenia we współczesnym filmie japońskim, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem traumatycznych przeżyć z okresu dzieciństwa lub wczesnej młodości. Autor wychodzi z założenia, że w dyskursie humanistycznym trauma przestaje być pojęciem klinicznym, staje się narzędziem interpretacji kultury, uświadamia nam charakter naszego stosunku do czasu minionego oraz wskazuje na problematyczność samego przedstawiania. W rozumieniu traumy Loska wychodzi od propozycji teoretycznych Dominicka LaCapry i Cathy Caruth, którzy zwracają uwagę na narracyjny wymiar tego pojęcia. "Fikcja" – jak zauważa LaCapra – "jest w stanie analizować to, co traumatyczne, szczególnie w niedawnej przeszłości, w tym fragmentację, pustkę czy zanik doświadczenia, i może stawiać pytania o inne możliwe formy doświadczenia. Może również analizować w szczególnie przekonujący i niepokojący sposób afektywny czy emocjonalny aspekt doświadczenia i rozumienia". Przedmiotem analizy są filmy współczesnych reżyserów japońskich – Shinjiego Aoyamy, Masato Harady, Hideaki Anno, Akihiko Shioty, Eijiego Okudy, Toshiaki Toyody, Hirokazu Koreedy – opowiadające o kryzysie tożsamości, alienacji, zaburzeniach osobowości, a przede wszystkim urazach psychicznych, które uniemożliwiają prawidłowe funkcjonowanie w społeczeństwie.
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The article is an analysis of the image of young people in contemporary Japanese film, with particular emphasis on traumatic experiences from childhood or early youth. The author assumes that in the humanist discourse, trauma is not a clinical concept, but a tool for interpreting culture, and makes us aware of our attitude towards the past, and points to the problematic nature of its presentation. In his understanding of trauma Loska’s starting point are the theories of Dominick LaCapra and Cathy Caruth who note the narrative dimension of this concept. 'Especially in the recent past' – notes LaCapra – 'fiction may well explore the traumatic, including the fragmentation, emptiness, or evacuation of experience, and may raise the question of other possible forms of experience. It may also explore in a particularly telling and unsettling way the affective and emotional dimensions of experience and understanding'. Loska presents analyses of films by contemporary Japanese directors such as Shinji Aoyama, Masato Harada, Hideaki Anno, Akihiko Shiota, Eiji Okuda, Toshiaki Toyoda, Hirokazu Koreeda – that tell of identity crisis, alienation, personality disorders and menta l injuries that prevent one from proper functioning in the society.
The aim of the paper is to review recent literature and introduce a systemic approach to the nature of sibling relationships during the first years of life. A growing body of evidence suggests that siblings play considerable roles in each other’s development, and that the quality and the character of the sibling bond may have far-reaching effects. The present review elucidates the interactions between subsystems, particularly the functioning of the sibling subsystem; it also considers influences from other internal and external factors. It discusses siblinghood between children with regard to three main domains: warmth and support, rivalry and jealousy, and conflict. The final part of the article suggests some implications considering the influence of child siblinghood on adolescent and adult life.
In the present day it is a must to know at least one foreign language. Most people choose English since it has become a global language and is present in almost every field of life. Researchers say that the best moment to start is in the childhood, yet they emphasize the fact that teaching very young children is challenging and needs to be planned with attention. This text aims to describe the specificity of teaching English to young learners and discusses some basic aspects of conducting child-friendly lessons together with some benefits of this approach.
It is an old pursuit to find the balance between nature and society (within the individual and the sum of people). In order to talk about a healthy society, it is necessarry to have the people making up the society healthy too. The health condition of the individuals affects the society, creating a close connection amoing individuals and society. Health, mental and physical well-beings of members of society affects the economy, since a healthy workforce leads to developing economy, which hence can provide the requirements and conditions that ensure a mentally and physically healthy way of living for the society. Sport, everyday exercise, therefore regular training can also play an important social role, and can greatly contribute to social well-being. Decreased physical activity, sitting lifestyle are both specific traits of economically developed countres, and turns into a more and more threatening public health problem world-wide, which contribute to the development or aggravation of such chronic diseases and health damages, like morbid obesity, heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension, locomotor diseases, malignant tumors, depression. The topic of our research is related to mainly the subject of primary school healthcare programs. The measurements have been taken in 12 different educational institutions, which included primary, secondary, vocational schools, and a 6-grade school. The actuality of the topic is proven by the increased obesity appearing at more younger ages, and we intend to shed some light on the fact, that with a good healhcare strategy and short-term goals we can achieve positive results shortly on the fields of school healthcare.
Article explores how Christopher von Schmid created child character and childhood in collection of stories Veškeré spisy pro mládež a přátelé její (1858 ‒ 1870). Their common feature is sophistication and playfulness as a distinctive attribute of childhood is missing. Schmid children's characters are lifeless, unrealistic, portraying as small adults and moral model, which does not correspond to contemporary knowledge of child development.
Lonely childhood constitutes one of the forms of children’s existence, bringing pain and suffering, which are caused by unfavourable situations and environmental conditions, mainly family-related, towards which a child is helpless, defenceless, and which lead to weakening or breaking the emotional bond between the child, parents, siblings or other family members and which always result in the child feeling lonely. The article is an attempt at a diagnosis of the situation of the child in the environment in which one of the parents is absent. The issues discussed are family determinants which can lead to loneliness. The aim of the research is also to show ways to prevent isolation of the child and to indicate some pedagogical strategies aimed at positive changes that should occur in the life of a child affected by loneliness.
Interpretations of the concepts of children and childhood have significantly changed over the past centuries. In the eighteenth century childhood was ascribed a status of a separate phase of human life in which human beings learn, grow and develop. Research conducted within the developmental psychology paradigm based on the notion of childhood’s ‘naturalness’ and on the necessity and normality of development has contributed to the emergence of a universal vision of the child and childhood. This vision has been challenged by the research conducted within the sociocultural paradigm in which childhood, understood as a social construction, is neither a natural nor a universal feature of human groups but appears as a specific structural and cultural component of many societies. We focused our attention on the sociocultural interpretations of the concepts of children and childhood. Our aim is, therefore, to show the ways in which children and childhood are understood in a sociocultural perspective. In the introductory part of the paper we briefly describe a universal vision of child development as well as the criticism it met from the supporters of the social childhood studies. In the main part of the article we focus our attention on the issue of social constructing of children and childhood. Sociocultural approach to childhood reveals a multitude and diversity of images of children and childhood constructed by adults in a variety of places, contexts and social spaces.
This article try to demonstrate how the silence takes shape: it becomes a dangerous character against whom the narrator has to act. InThe Children’s Chamber, the silence is at first an ally, helping the young Georges to resist to the other children who want him to talk. Then it becomes a dangerous character who takes more and more space: the adulte who spies the children from the begining of the novel has to interrumpt their game in order to stop the silence.
The aim of the articles is to present one of the fairy tales written by Alina and Jerzy Afanasjew. Analysis and interpretation contains reflections about the structure of the text, symbols, imagery and values, impact of folk tales and other genres.
Lonely childhood constitutes one of the forms of children’s existence, bringing pain and suffering, which are caused by unfavourable situations and environmental conditions, mainly family-related, towards which a child is helpless, defenceless, and which lead to weakening or breaking the emotional bond between the child, parents, siblings or other family members and which always result in the child feeling lonely. The article is an attempt at a diagnosis of the situation of the child in the environment in which one of the parents is absent. The issues discussed are family determinants which can lead to loneliness. The aim of the research is also to show ways to prevent isolation of the child and to indicate some pedagogical strategies aimed at positive changes that should occur in the life of a child affected by loneliness.
The article presents various aspects of taking care of a child. Made an analysis of the child’s position in the individual epochs. The author conducted analysis of the child’s position across centuries. The summary is aimed at persuading the reader to in-depth reflection on the modern image of education and child care.
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This paper discusses the level of acceptation of different kinds of computer games and the changes of the attitude depending on the respondents’ knowledge and context of playing activity. The forms of entertainment for the young generations are the extremely popular computer games. The main goal of this paper is to show the attitude of people toward the game industry and the correlation between the ways of spending spare time and the level of acceptation of computer games. The study is based on a questionnaire in which respondents could declare their opinions in open questions. The study included more than 60 parents, both men and women. It is not surprising that, despite the popularity of computer games, they still arouse much controversy, particularly as they relate to children. Collected parents’ opinions give the picture of the most important pros and cons of playing games and the goals and circumstances of the game activity. When respondents have been informed about term “serious games”, they have changed their previous perceptions of computer games, and the acceptance to the children’s activity grows.
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