Alternative schools 2300-S2-MEA-SA

The tutorial includes a directed and didactically supervised independent work of the student related to searching for and deepening knowledge about alternative education institutions. As a result of their own research, students will become familiar with selected alternative schools, learning about
the set goals, formulated assumptions, the way of organizing the institutions together with the method of recruiting teachers and students and the final assessment of the achieved results. Seminar-style classes focus on the following groups of issues:
I. What are we looking for in alternative education?
II. The creator of an alternative school as a pedagogue and a keen observer of social expectations.
III. The teacher in an alternative model of education.
IV. The role of alternative schools in educational policy.
V. Alternative schools and mass education.
VI. Selected alternative schools - goals and effects. (e.g.: M.Montessori, R.Steiner, C.Freinet, H.Parkhurst, J-O. Decroly, A.S.Neill, W.H. Kilpatrick, P.Petersen, M.Fourestier, K.Hahn, H.Lietz, T.Łopuszański).