Open AccessDialog and confrontation Conference on social pedagogy and social policy in 1967
Author(s) -
Wiesław Theiss
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pedagogika społeczna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1642-672X
DOI - 10.35464/1642-672x.ps.2019.3.08
Subject(s) - ideology , social pedagogy , dialog box , sociology , socialism , social change , politics , pedagogy , social philosophy , social science , subject (documents) , epistemology , social relation , environmental ethics , political science , law , communism , philosophy , world wide web , computer science , library science
The subject of the article is the relation between social pedagogy – the so-called real socialism, seen in the perspective of the nationwide conference on social pedagogy and social policy held in Warsaw in 1967. This forgotten today, but important event was another attempt at the process of positioning social pedagogy in the political, social and scientific realities of the time. It was aimed at showing the place androle of this discipline of education in building the so-called socialist system. During the conference there was a dialog and confrontation between two fundamental ways of understanding social pedagogy: the “traditional” one, in accordance with the concept of Helena Radlińska, and the “socialist” one, corresponding to the principles of the political system of the country building a “developed socialist society”. A visible result of this discourse was the concept of a “third space”: social pedagogy, which, while maintaining the traditional ideological and scientific objectives, was engaged in solving current civil, educational, cultural and social problems. In this perspective, the primary influence of historical and social factors on the development of social pedagogy, its ideological foundations, theory and practice is sometimes revealed.