Educational ideas and biography of Anton Semenovich Makarenko

In 1888 in a small town of Kharkovprovince was born Makarenko Anton Semenovich. The biography of this man is literally permeated with philanthropy and constant creative search. The future well-known throughout the country writer and educator was born in the family of a painter at the railway workshops. Besides him, the family later had a sister and a brother. The latter later became a whiteguard officer, so he was forced to leave his homeland after the Bolshevik victory in

civil war. Actually, only thanks to his memoirs is known the early biography of Anton Semenovich Makarenko. However, and this is quite a bit.

Biography of Anton Semenovich Makarenko: young years

Being seventeen years old, a future teachersuccessfully finishes Kremenchug city school and begins his pedagogical activity. Since 1905 he works as a teacher in the same Kremenchug at the railway school. In general, the biography of Anton Semenovich Makarenko contains a lot of gaps. In particular, and his young years are not known in detail. In 1914, the teacher decides to continue his own education and enters the Teaching Institute in Poltava, which subsequently successfully graduates in 1917. In 1920-1930 our hero receives invaluable pedagogical experience, directing the labor colony in Kharkov, where juvenile prisoners are kept. Biography of Anton Semenovich Makarenko indicates that it was during this period that he became

widely known as a talented teacher andeducator. After all, it was during the work in the Kharkov colony that the most famous fruit of his pen was published: The Pedagogical Poem. In 1935 he moved to Kiev for a short period. And in 1937 - to Moscow, where he devotes himself to social, pedagogical and literary activity. Here he receives the Order of the Red Labor Banner. And in 1958 the achievements of the great teacher were recognized by the institution in the Ukrainian SSR of the medal of his name, which was awarded to particularly distinguished teachers and other employees of the education system.

Makarenko Anton Semenovich: pedagogical ideas

According to the thought of the great teacher, the goal of anyWork on education should be determined by the public interest. An important point of this philosophy was the idea that pedagogical means or their complex can not be permanent and effective equally equally in all conditions. Anton Semenovich

insisted on the flexibility of using such techniques. Among other things, he stressed that in the course of education through the team, every pupil in this collective requires an equal share of attention from the head of the process. The great teacher saw the key to successful education in encouraging a person to show his best qualities and inclinations. He often emphasized the importance of the process of education, justifying it by the fact that otherwise the problems of an adult with society will later inevitably arise. As you know, re-education is always more difficult. The main method in the entire pedagogical system of Makarenko was the method of high demands on himself, which literally meant total self-control of his actions by the educator (or parents). He maintained that a simple, serious and sincere tone in the relationship between the educator / parent and children would ensure the success of pedagogical tasks.