Korczakowski witraż dziecięcy
Korczak’s childhood collage

Summary/Abstract: The article, in the face of some reflections on various forms of harm still experiencing by contemporary children despite some regulations and law protection. The author says that a lot of forms of a child harm can be found in the past — they are changing in their context, intensity, and places of occurring, but not their nature and their damaging consequences on child development. Janusz Korczak is reminded — his interest of a child and his sensitivity to difficult situations of children living in his time. There are some of Korczak’s and other authors texts quoted, in which child harm is described; examples of inhuman child work and violent discipline. The author emphasis Korczak’s genius of listening to children and painting a painfull pictures of child life. Showing the picture of a childhood from the beginning of XX century, the authors asks the question: does the picture fit to a child from the beginning of XXI century?! When can we write a book “childhood — a happy picture”?

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