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The picture-book

The introduction of pictures was from big importance for the evolution of the children literature. Johann Amos Comenius handed over the first picture-book and the first teaching book for children in Latin in 1658 in Nürnberg. Its name was “Orbis sensualium pictus” (the visible world in pictures) and it was reprinted in 1979. “Orbis” means “circle”. The picture-book was nearly translated in all European languages. As regards content the book had many topics of the weekday to offer, which were with wood slices illustrate.

Peace education

He described the peace education in his main book “Magna Didactica” (the big didactic = “art of teaching”). In 1960 the main book was translated. Today under didactic will understand as well as, both academic theories of teaching and teaching and theories of culture contests and teachingplan. His destination was it to make children peaceful and fair people, with the help of big nature understanding, big development and religious education. He said these very influential ideas in whole Europe in a time, when the european population suffered under the terrible results of the Thirty Year War. The ideas of the peace education got new lift in advance of the First World War (from 1914 till 1917) by Bertha from Suttner (from 1843 till 1914), who got the peace nobel prize in 1905. Today different forms of the peace education lean on drafts of not military defending, its name is social defending.

Education

The children education didn’t play an own role in middle age in Europe. While the Renaissance, the children education became better and finally it was formulated as the general education. These formulations of the early 19th century are the basises for the education finish. From this time, schools played also the most important role (school duty) as disposable culture institution. In the education novel of the 19th century many separate authors presented their education mock-ups or education programms. The education science (also: pedagogy) especially look into the education process. Education theorists for example Fröbel or Pestalozzi supported for the childlike understanding in the manners. Out of this, the Waldorf pedagogy and the theories of the italian doctor Maria Montessori (Montessori pedagogy), developed also powerful. 

Books

Most important were two books: his book about theory and praxis of the education with its books of teaching, for example, “Ceská didaktika” (big didactic) and “Orbis sensualium pictus”, which were for a long time the most reading school books in Germany.

Book

Year

Griefs over griefs – comfort over comfort (1. and 2. part)

1623 and 1624

The labyrinth of the world and the paradise of the heart  

1623

The centrum of the save 

until 1625

Böhmical didactic 

1628 till 1632

The opened language door

1629 till 1631

Informations of the mother school

1629 till 1632

Total view of the physics

1630 till 163

The trump of the mercy year  

1631and 32

The resurrection of the Haggai

1632

Big didactic

1633 till 1638

Prologues of the comenian finishes

1634 till 1636

Precursors of the pansophy

1634 till 1639

 Statement of the pansophian finishes

1638 and 1639

Creation of the pansophy

1639 till 1641

The way of the light

1641

School books, the new language method

1642 till 1647

The work on the general advice

from 1645

School speaks, school decrees and –laws

1650

Griefs over griefs (3. part)

1651

The visible world in pictures  

1653 and 54

The luck of the people

1654

The first parts of the general advice

1656

Light in the darkness

until 1657

Good sense- finish 

1665

Griefs over griefs (4. part)

1660

Letters to Peter van den Berge  

1661

The last trumps over Germany 

1663

The angel of the peace 

1667

The only necessity

1668

 Warning for Maresius

1669

 by Marvin Haggenmüller, LFR Oberderdingen, class 9a, January 2003

Sources:

  • Microsoft ® Encarta ® Professional 2002. © 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation.

  • Microsoft® Encarta® Enzyklopädie 2002. © 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation.

  • Fackel Lexikon/ Fackelverlag/ Bibliographische Institut AG/ Mannheim/ 1972

  • Großes Universal Lexikon/ Corvus Verlag/ Berlin/ 1976

  • Lexikon der Weltgeschichte/ KAPP- Verlag OHG/ Bensheim/ 1977

  • Internet

 

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