Educational activities in Janusz Korczak's Orphans' home in warsaw: A historical case study and its implications for current child and youth care practice

In this article we propose additional ideas for group care and treatment programs, based on a historical case study of Korczak's orphans' home in Warsaw. Six domains of his educational framework are linked with six areas in the current educational literature, all related to residential education: a. "children's society" activities; b. ongoing evaluation in the school in the social area under the children's control; c. essential, continuous communication channels to suit everyone; d. education for work and for taking care of oneself; e. changing, multi-age groups; and f. the use of apprentice-teacher experience in training educators. At the end we propose four additional conclusions for research on group care and treatment programs derived from Korczak's work that can be applied today.