The Image of a Child, Childishness and Childish Nature as Perceived by Jan Amos Comenius – Theoretical Sources II

Abstract

The Image of a Child, Childishness and Childish Nature as Perceived by Jan Amos Comenius – Theoretical Sources II. – From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century gradually a new perception of what is a child and what is its role in the realm of human and super-human intentions took place. The move towards a child, as this change is indicated in professional literature, has its roots in the efforts of pedagogical geniuses Jan Amos Comenius and Jean Jacques Rousseau. The author analyses their focus on a child and its specific value on the background of philosophical concepts of both thinkers. This continuation of the previously published text focuses on the philosophical conception of a play and Comenius’s approach to discipline and a symbology of a child and childhood.