Wielka gra Aleksandra Kamińskiego o demokrację

Abstract

The author recalls the views of Aleksander Kamiński, an outstanding educator and a cofounder of the scouts movement, on the relations between pedagogy and politics. Kamiński had to function in difficult circumstances, during the war and occupation and in the period of the communist government in Poland. His vision of democracy, created at that time, was characterized by humanism and anti-totalitarianism. Kamiński highlighted such advantages of democracy as liberty, equality, and parliamentarianism. He saw the civil and moral responsibilities as conjoined; he postulated creating local structures of self-government, which he found important also at school. He encouraged propagating the democratic thought and putting it to practice. Many of Kamiński’s theses and proposals deserve attention also today, as – in the author’s opinion – the struggle for democracy and democratic education is continually carried on.