Abstract

KULESZA, Wojciech Andrzej. The Comenius Handbook for Maternal Education of Children. Pedagogía y Saberes [online]. 2021, n.54, pp.55-68.  Epub Feb 05, 2022. ISSN 0121-2494.  https://doi.org/10.17227/pys.num54-11479.

As pastor of the Moravian Brothers community in exile, Comenius necessarily applied himself to the care of children, when he noted the importance of adequate preparation of the people involved in this task. Then, he decided to write a handbook, later called The School of Infancy (1633), dedicated to parents and caregivers of children from zero to six years old. In this article, after situating the context in which this work was produced, a description of the handbook is made, commenting on the passages we consider most significant, either due to their timeliness or due to their importance for understanding the Comenian pedagogical proposal in general. We argue that reading the handbook vis-à-vis with other works by Comenius greatly enriches our understanding of the development of his thinking about the educational phenomenon, especially considering that the definitive edition of his handbook is contemporary with his most important pedagogical production. Themes only suggested in the manual are extensively dealt with in later works, superficially pointed questions are deepened and essential principles of Comenius' theoretical formulation about education are exposed with meridian clarity in the handbook. Finally, in the light of the influence of Comenius' thought on the history of modern education, a discussion is made based on the iconography around representations, referenced in Comenian historiography, of the educator / educated relationship.

Keywords : child education; educational iconography; nursery school; pedagogical relationship.

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