Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej Śniadecki

The article is devoted to the concept of physical education of children that were presented in papers of Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768–1838), a famous Polish-Lithuanian doctor, anthropologist, biologist, chemist, and philosopher. The study revealed that the works of J. Śniadecki were partly characteristic...

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Main Author: Aistis Žalnora
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Language:English
Published: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte 2019-12-01
Series:Acta Medico-Historica Rigensia
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Online Access:https://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/1079?mode=simple
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description The article is devoted to the concept of physical education of children that were presented in papers of Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768–1838), a famous Polish-Lithuanian doctor, anthropologist, biologist, chemist, and philosopher. The study revealed that the works of J. Śniadecki were partly characteristic of the Enlightenment period. The main goal of Śniadecki’s papers was to educate society in order to fight with superstitions and negative habits that were widely spread in the working class as well as the upper class. He focused on preventive measures that would help to maintain good physical and mental health of a child, family and society. Śniadecki’s attitude included some Romanticist features. He believed that the modern way of living was dangerous for human health because of numerous social factors that changed the primary perfection, purity and natural powers of the human body. As an opposition to the modern lifestyle he puts natural- istic way of living. However, Śniadecki was also one of the first anthropologists in Lithuania and Poland. His works were the first attempts to find correlations between numerous factors such as nutrition, heredity and development of the human body. Moreover, Śniadecki could be referred to as one of the pioneers in didactics. His insights related to the different teaching methods applied to the pupils’ age and sex remain relevant until now.
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spelling doaj.art-d02ea5939a344fd383a5ee9af5dd1d912022-12-22T03:42:26ZengRīgas Stradiņa universitāteActa Medico-Historica Rigensia1022-80122592-818X2019-12-011292110.25143/amhr.2019.XII.01Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej ŚniadeckiAistis Žalnora0Centre for Health Ethics, Law and History of the Institute of Public Health, Vilnius UniversityThe article is devoted to the concept of physical education of children that were presented in papers of Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768–1838), a famous Polish-Lithuanian doctor, anthropologist, biologist, chemist, and philosopher. The study revealed that the works of J. Śniadecki were partly characteristic of the Enlightenment period. The main goal of Śniadecki’s papers was to educate society in order to fight with superstitions and negative habits that were widely spread in the working class as well as the upper class. He focused on preventive measures that would help to maintain good physical and mental health of a child, family and society. Śniadecki’s attitude included some Romanticist features. He believed that the modern way of living was dangerous for human health because of numerous social factors that changed the primary perfection, purity and natural powers of the human body. As an opposition to the modern lifestyle he puts natural- istic way of living. However, Śniadecki was also one of the first anthropologists in Lithuania and Poland. His works were the first attempts to find correlations between numerous factors such as nutrition, heredity and development of the human body. Moreover, Śniadecki could be referred to as one of the pioneers in didactics. His insights related to the different teaching methods applied to the pupils’ age and sex remain relevant until now.https://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/1079?mode=simplej. śniadeckivilniusphysical educationchildrenanthropologyj. šņadeckisviļņafiziskā audzināšanabērniantropoloģija
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Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej Śniadecki
Acta Medico-Historica Rigensia
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physical education
children
anthropology
j. šņadeckis
viļņa
fiziskā audzināšana
bērni
antropoloģija
title Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej Śniadecki
title_full Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej Śniadecki
title_fullStr Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej Śniadecki
title_full_unstemmed Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej Śniadecki
title_short Principles of Physical Education of Children in the Works of Jędrzej Śniadecki
title_sort principles of physical education of children in the works of jedrzej sniadecki
topic j. śniadecki
vilnius
physical education
children
anthropology
j. šņadeckis
viļņa
fiziskā audzināšana
bērni
antropoloģija
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