Makarenko, His Life and Work
- 308 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko Book order
March 13, 1888 – April 1, 1939
Anton Semenovych Makarenko was a seminal Soviet educator and writer whose theories profoundly shaped educational practices. He championed the concept of upbringing within self-governing child collectives, integrating productive labor as a core component of education. Makarenko's innovative approach addressed the challenges of juvenile delinquency, particularly in the turbulent post-civil war era, and his methods yielded remarkable results in correctional settings. His literary works, drawing directly from his experiences, offer enduring insights into his transformative philosophy of child development and community building.
- 2004
- 2002
A Book for Parents
- 412 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, Russian educator and novelist, was born on March 13, 1888, in the town of Belopolye, in Kharkov Gubernia, the Ukraine. Besides being a remarkable teacher, he was a profound theoretician and made a major contribution to Soviet pedagogics. Makarenko was an innovator. He worked out a new and original approach to the methodological foundations of pedagogy, a new theory of discipline - the "discipline of combating and surmounting difficulties" - and a system for the building of character. He laid great stress on the importance of home upbringing, and gave many valuable instructions in this field. To him we owe the first detailed elaboration of the educational significance of the collective. Another innovation was his remarkably profound "system of perspectives," the essence of which he defined in the following "Man must have something joyful ahead of him to live for. The true stimulus in human life is the morrow's joy."
- 2001
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