Koncepcja pedagogiczna Wiosek Dziecięcych SOS w ujęciu Hermanna Gmeinera i jej współczesne zastosowanie w Polsce
The pedagogical concept of the SOS Children’s V illages by Hermann Gmeiner and its contemporary application in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article The pedagogical concept of the SOS Children’s Villages by Hermann Gmeiner and its contemporary application in Poland presents an educational care system, the SOS Children’s Villages, as one form of care for orphaned and abandoned children. The article includes four parts: the introduction, pedagogical principles of the SOS Villages, the changes in the functioning of the SOS Children’s Villages in Poland and the conclusion. The introduction describes the subject-matter of the article and a brief history and development of the SOS Childreris Villages in the world and in Poland. The second part entitled Pedagogical principles of the SOS Children’s Villages presents four basic principles of the functioning of the SOS Children’s Villages, created by the founder of the villages, Hermann Gmeiner, which form the basis for their educational care activities. Those are: a mother, siblings, a family, a village. Each of the above principles is discussed in detail. This part of the article focuses on the views of H. Gmeiner which concern critical remarks about the functioning of the above principles and in particular the lack of a father in the family of a village. The third part of the article refers to the changes made in the SOS Children’s Villages in Poland. The amendments concern the adaptation of the activities of SOS Children’s Villages in Poland to the applicable laws, especially the law on family support and foster care system. As a result of the introduced changes, families operating in the Children’s Villages of SOS have become family-type care and education facilities. This part of the article also discusses internal legal acts regarding the functioning of villages as a whole and individual family-type care and educational facilities. The ending is a general summary of the article with an indication of the conditions of the evolution of the idea of Hermann Gmeiner. The main goal of the foster care system was formulated which is preventive work with a dysfunctional family enabling the development of children in biological families.

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