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Pikler-Hengstenberg-Gesellschaft - english information

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Austria

Task and aim of the Pikler-Hengstenberg-Gesellschaft is to raise parent´s and experts´ awareness of an active partnership between parents and children in their upbringing and education, and of a careful and cooperative approach to children in order to establish human relations. Children should not be passive objects in the educational efforts of adults. It is therefore essential for a healthy personality development of the child to foster free and self-determinded playing and learning.

Keywords

children and youth research; education; sciences of education; aims of education; parents; child-parent relationship; infant; early childhood; personality development; social competence; early childhood education; self-directed learning; self-instruction;