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Anton Makarenko
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, was a Soviet educator, social worker and writer. He became the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union; along with promoting principles in educational theory and practice. As one of the founders of Soviet pedagogy, he elaborated the theory and methodology of upbringing in self-governing child collectives and introduced the concept of productive labor…
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culture · Soviet educator, social worker and writer · pedagogue · educator · pedagogical writer · writer · teacher · also Anton Makarenko, Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, Anton Semenovich Makarenko, Makarenko
Born 13 March 1888 · Died 1 April 1939 · Q297448
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1988· 1 entry
UNESCO ranked Makarenko as one of four educators (along with John Dewey, Georg Kerschensteiner, and Maria Montessori) who determined the world's pedagogical thinking of the 20th century
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1939· 2 entries
Died 1939-04-01.
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Anton Semenovich Makarenko died of heart failure in a suburban train at the Golitsyno railway station of the Moscow Railway's Smolensk line, aged 51
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1937· 1 entry
His acclaimed The Book for Parents came out, followed by Flags on the Battlements (translated into English as Learning to Live) in 1938, a sequel to The Road to Life
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1936· 1 entry
Was appointed the head of another colony, in Brovary, and according to the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia "in less than a year turned an unruly bunch of pupils into a highly disciplined worki
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1935· 1 entry
Makarenko started working at the NKVD in Kyiv as the Chief Assistant of the Labour Colony Department
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1934· 1 entry
Became a member of the Soviet Union of Writers
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1932· 1 entry
Makarenko saw his first story being published, "The March of the 30th Year"
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1930· 1 entry
The commune became fully self-sufficient
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1928· 2 entries
Makarenko was released from the post of head of the Gorky colony
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The famous writer visited the two colonies and left much impressed; next year in an essay called "Over the Union of Soviets" he hailed Makarenko as "the new type of pedagogue
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1927· 1 entry
Makarenko was appointed as the head of the Dzerzhinsky labour commune, an orphanage for street children near Kharkov, where the most incorrigible thieves and swindlers were known to be put into rehabilitation
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1923· 1 entry
Makarenko published two articles on the Gorky Colony (in Golos Truda newspaper and Novimy Stezhkami magazine) and two years later made a public report at the All-Ukrainian Conference for the orphanage teachers
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1920· 1 entry
Was invited to head the Poltava Colony for Young Offenders
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-03-13.
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