COMENIUS HERITAGE

Teacher Training Programme – School projectUniversity of Ostrava – Jana Kapounová, Jelena Petrucijová

Basic school Karviná-Mizerov – Aleš Homan

Basic school Karviná-Nové Město – Jan Kodenko, Eva Vejmolová

Czech Republic

Jan Amos Komenský Iohannes Amos Comenius

March 28, 1592 – November 15, 1670

• Czech teacher• scientist• educator

• writer• Unity of the Brethren/Moravian Protestant bishop• religious refugee

• defender of universal education• known as the teacher of nations

? born

Leszno

PřerovFulnek

Johan Amos Comenius 1592–1671

ORBIS PICTUS (1658)

Veni, Puer! disce Sapere.

Come Boy! learn to be wise.

Life (1)

• 28. 3. 1592 born in Moravia (the birthplace of Comenius is not known; there are three possible locations)

– early orphaned (1604)

• education:– 1608–11 Academy of Unity of the Brethren (Přerov)

– 1611–14 Academy at Herborn and the University of Heidelberg

• from 1614 – pastor and school principal in towns Přerov, Fulnek – near Ostrava (1618 the Thirty Years war began)

• after 1620 – persecuted under the Counter Reformation, was a fugitive in his own country (his young wife and two children died of the plague 1622)

• 1628 – fled Moravia to Poland, in Leszno led gymnasium

The Battle of White Mountain, November 8, 1620

Life (2)lived and worked in many different countries in Europe:

Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Transylvania, the Holy Roman Empire, England, the Netherlands, Royal Hungary

• 1641–42 England (family de Geer)

• 1642–48 Elblag (Polish Royal Prussia)

• 1648 Peace of Westphalia (end of the Thirty Years' War);

his second wife died, leaving him with four children

• 1649 married with the third wife

• 1648–50 in Leszno• 1650–56 Sárospatak, Leszno (his manuscripts and the school’s

printing press were burned down)

• 1656–70 Amstedam, buried in Naarden (his grave can be visited in the mausoleum devoted to him).

The Rose Meadow

Historical context • the end of the 16th up until the first half of the 17th

century• Late Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-

Reformation

• 3 main periods of Comenius philosophy– 1614-1622: the World is a stage - Theatrum universitatis

rerum– 1622-1627: the World is a Labyrinth - Labyrinth of the World

and Paradise of the Heart– 1628-1670: the World is a place for remedy - The General

Deliberation on the Remedy of Human Matters

Work• Czech poetry, ancient wisdoms, Czech dictionary• theological works, psalm, liturgical songs, etc.• Didactical works (Opera didactica omnia)• Theatrum universitatis rerum

• Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart

• The General Deliberation on the Remedy of Human Matters (De rerum humanarum emendatione consultatio catholica)

• Gate of languages (Janua linguarum reserata)• World in pictures (Orbis sensualium pictus)• Learning by Play (Schola ludus)• Didactica Magna

• …

ORBIS PICTUS (1658)

School project• historical framework – the Lands of Bohemia Crown before and after the Battle of Bílá Hora (in 1620)

• Comenius – the Teacher of Nations

-Comenius as a reformer – he endeavour at universal improvement of human kind be traced

-Comenius as a pedagogue – “human life is able, willing and glad to be fully occupied throughout every part and stage of its existence, if it is rightly directed”

-Comenius as a didactic – “everybody should be educated”

• Comenius heritage and its importance in 21st century

COMENIUS AND HIS TIME• The Gateway of Things – different spheres of

Comenius’s work:– Astronomy, Diplomacy, Philology, Philosophy, History,

Cartography, Literature, Nature, Education, Technology, Theology, Theatre

• Back to the Roots:– historical context of the time: historical and biographical section

through the Europe and the Czech state from the end of the 16th up until the first half of the 17th century

• The Fount of Understanding:– the world is becoming a Labyrinth in which a pilgrim is wandering

and try to find a Paths to the remedy of mankind’s situation

COMENIUS’S HERITAGE FOR THE PRESENT DAY

• Comenius to Pedagogy Learning by Play

• Comenius to the Mankind The General Deliberation on the Remedy of Human Matters

Panegersia – The General Awakening

Panaugia – The Path of General Light

Pansophia – The General Wisdom

Pampaedia – The General Refinement of Minds

Panglottia – The General Refinement of Languages

Panorthosia – The General Remedy

Pannuthesia – The General Encouragement

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