UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair International Summer School for researchers

The book is part of the UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair’s book series, published under the patronage of the Polish Commission for UNESCO, as an outcome and a resource for the International Summer Schools, organized since 2006, at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, the city of Korczak. This newly edited volume is dedicated to Janusz Korczak’s heritage and its relevance to current affairs, especially to situations caused by the recent pandemic. The themes presented in this book include educational and social problems with a particular emphasis on human and children’s rights, social inequalities and access to education. The chapters in the book were authored by both well-established academics and by emerging researchers from Argentina, Germany, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, USA and Poland. The book includes an essay on digital activism by Waliya Yohanna Joseph, which was awarded the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020.

Free for a week in September 2020? Looking to enhance your expertise in children's rights in the Central and Eastern European Children's Rights Centre? Would you like to expand your academic network and visit historic, yet freshly vibrant city of Warsaw? Affordable fee of 120 euro for a certified academic course. See more.... http://www.aps.edu.pl/unesco-chair/unesco-janusz-korczak-chair-international-summer-schools/

Janusz Korczak PRIZE for GLOBAL SOUTH is a special A stipend programme funded by the Rector of Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, Poland. In 2020 the stipend covers participation in the 13th UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair International Summer School that will take place at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw; 14-18.09.2020 Thematic: "In Korczak's footsteps (Korczak's heritage and philosophy of education)" This is a call for papers