Sąd usiłuje przebaczyć… – Sąd Koleżeński w Domu Sierot i Naszym Domu w perspektywie new childhood studies
The court tries to forgive ... – The Peer Court (Sąd Koleżeński) in the Orphanage (Dom Sierot) and Our Home (Nasz Dom) in the perspective of new childhood studies

Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to a cultural analysis of the phenomenon of the “Colleagues’ Court” (Sąd Koleżeński), as an element of a broader self-government system that Janusz Korczak elaborated for children’s care institutions. One of them was an orphanage called “Our Home” (Nasz Dom), ran in the interwar period by Maria (Maryna) z Rogowskich Falska, Korczak’s close cooperator. The author bases her analysis mainly upon the codex of the Colleague’s Court and the documents on the Court’s activity. Her main area of interest is the ideological background of that institution. In order to observe it, she takes advantage of the anthropology of law, enhanced with the perspective offered by the new childhood studies. In accordance with the engaged humanities paradigm, the text consists not only of a critical analysis, but also of an attempt to find an answer to the question whether the system devised by Korczak can serve as an inspiration for a contemporary area of children’s rights or pedagogy of law.

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