Volume:8, Issue: 2

Dec. 15, 2016

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The King of Children in Brazil
Novinsky Haberkorn, Tania [about]
The Janusz Korczak Association of Brazil was founded in São Paulo on April 10, 1984. The idea of creating the Association in Brazil came from Professor Josette Balsa, a founder of the Janusz Korczak Association in Geneva, Switzerland. The Association was very active until the year 2000. Due to various reasons, it had very little activities for the next decade. Then, in 2013, Ana Szpiczkowski, a professor from University of São Paulo, wrote a book The Orphans of Korczak (our translation), about her interviews with some of the ‘children’ from Korczak´s orphanage who were willing to share their memories. Suddenly there was a group of people who became interested in reactivating the Association under Ana´s presidency. A movement of a sort began, and new ideas and partnerships followed. In this article I would like to share some of the amazing work that we have been doing since then in Brazil to continue spreading the ideas of love, determination, and respect to children and educators that we learned from Korczak and the people who worked close with him.

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