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The UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair was established in the Maria Grzegorzewska University in 2004 as a result of agreements signed by the Director General of UNESCO and H.E. Rector of The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education.
The UNESCO Chair Team conducts the interdisciplinary research programs, participates in conferences, seminars, debates, study visits (in Poland and abroad) and, since 2006, organizes the International Summer Schools for young academics, PhD Students and practitioners whose activities are connected with children’s rights, child development and well-being issues.
All of the Chair’s activities are aligned with UNESCO’s priorities in relation to humanities and social sciences. We undertake actions, which respond to the challenges of the modern world defined by Sustainable Development Goals.
The primary objective of the Chair is to maintain and strengthen the international academic links in the field of interdisciplinary studies on child development and well-being, as well as to develop the international academic cooperation.
This special anniversary serves as a reminder of the actuality of the figure of Janusz Korczak, whose teachings come as relevant as ever, in a time when compassion and readiness to help, to find goodness in other people, and to respect children as human beings, is more needed than ever.
Korczak message of kindness, love and warmth resonates within the Chair scopes and activities, and we invite everyone to get in touch with his figure through readings about his life and legacy.
UNESCO Chair Publications are available here: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej - UNESCO Publications (aps.edu.pl)
Stay tuned for more information about this Anniversary special activities!
UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair (UNESCO website: Chair no 666)
Chairholder: Prof. Anna Odrowąż-Coates
UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair in Social Pedagogy
The Maria Grzegorzewska University
Szczęśliwicka Street 40; room no 4121, building D
02-353 Warsaw, Poland
Tel. (48 22) 589-36-00; extension number: 4121
unescochair@aps.edu.pl; acoates@aps.edu.pl
More information:
Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej - UNESCO CHAIR (aps.edu.pl)
