Childhood lasts forever...Child and childhood in the polish, german and english culture 3302-DTW-OG

The seminar focuses primarily on defining the concepts of child 'and childhood' from a
psychological perspective concentrated on psychological writings of the following researchers:
S. Freud (Freud's life and his theory of psychoanalysis), L. DeMause (psychology and
psychoanalyst; psychoanalytical, psychohistorical and psychogenetic approach to the
phenomenon of childhood; childhood as a nightmare and the question of its self-awareness),
Ariès’s theses (the role of the family in the process of upbringing; school as an instrument of
socialization; black pedagogy; adults perspective of the child’s world). In this context, the theses
of contemporary researchers of children studies, oscillating around current pedagogical and
psychological concepts, such as: demographic issues, intergenerational conflicts, liberal and
conservative variants of the family, the crisis of values, the role of media and technological
innovations in the process of education and the "pedagogization" of childhood, are also of key
importance.

These considerations will be supplemented with information on other scientific disciplines: 1.
Childhood and childhood as categories of theoretical analysis, 2. The phenomenon of childhood
in an interdisciplinary approach, 3. The child in the light of philosophical and anthropological
research, 4. The child and its social and cultural space (films, plays, musicals and children's and
children's literature), 5. A child in contemporary German-speaking and Polish culture - an
attempt to compare.