Love’s Philosophy for Street Children

Abstract

The issue is around Janusz Korzcak`s life history, and his dedication to street children in Warsaw, where he developed a pedagogical practice of renewing family affections – a philosophy of love – among street children, mainly those without family and homeless. For this research, we visited the old orphanages Dom Sierot and Nasz Dom, which was followed by a bibliographic review. The main topic deals with the philosophical practice started with Rousseau’s writings and widespread among educators in the late nineteenth century – when they began to make strong criticism against traditional teaching methods, as well as when new practices began to be developed by writers who sought valuing the child as the main focus in education.