The Pedagogical System created by Anton Semyonovich Makarenko

Abstract

"Stressing the importance of the teaching method within the educational process and in defining a teacher’s status, the author describes the pedagogical system created by Anton Semyono-vich Makarenko, his perspective on pedagogical theory and practice, on education through and for the group, and on the significance of a detailed knowledge of the individuals in the group. Makarenko considered all these elements essential in the process of shaping the communist citizen. The author highlights the similarities between the educational ends pursued in the “Gorky Colony”, established and led by A. S. Makarenko, and those of the communist prisons in Romania, particularly in the Piteşti Phenomenon, as well as the multiple parallels between Makaren-ko’s and the “re-education” strategies applied to political detainees; the conclusion of these comparisons is that the Makarenko strategy was well known and used in order to “re-educate”"