[Janusz Korczak] Children’s rights as individuals, developed by Marta Ciesielska

Abstract

Henryk Goldszmit/Janusz Korczaka actively participated in the movement for children’s rights, one of the emancipatory movements in the first decades of the 20th century. Deriving from the medical and educational/citizen formation circles for him - whose representatives reported important initiatives for children - he took various actions in the interwar period in order to promote the postulates of recognition of children’s rights and social responsibility for respecting them. His author’s interpretation of the „natural” rights of the child is documented, among others, by a summary (introduction and seven thematic groups) of lectures published in 1928, which Korczak gave in the second half of the 1920s as part of state courses for educators of care facilities.