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1 ABSTRACT This thesis analyses the way how Janusz Korczak, in his selected works, pictures the child and his upbringing. It summarizes his philosophical principles of education, shows how his work contributes to the current pedagogy and how his ideas are actual. This work is theoretical and is based on an analysis of Korczak's texts and texts of the authors who deal with the Korczak's work. The thesis contains also current, mainly Polish, references to his pedagogical work. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first and the second are about Korczak's life. They describe his life periods and show Korczaks in the different roles he had to live in his complex life. It deals with the pedagogical and educational philosophy of Janusz Korczak. in particular with the human dignity and children rights, their autonomy, with the image of the teacher and the educational methods that may be used to work with children. In this thesis, Janusz Korczak's personality is connected to the idea of self-sacrifice and this idea is discussed in terms of the possible motives of his self-sacrifice. KEYWORDS Social pedagogy, education, philosophy of education, dignity and rights of the child, autonomy, self-sacrifice

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The post-pandemic classroom dealt with not only the mental health struggles of educators and students, but also the technological and virtual learning dependence in a time ridden with misinformation. At this time, it was important to not only consider the purpose and intent of science education as a learning experience, but also pedagogical approaches that seek to actualize this very intent. The pedagogy of science has at its foundation the experience of inquiry beginning from self and expanding to the natural world. Explained by educationalists like John Dewey and Thomas Kuhn and in theory, implemented into classrooms through the Next Generation Science Standards, the potential of inquiry is to expand from a first-person experience to the wellbeing of community and society. Moreover, contemplative philosophies, such as Yoga, Vedanta, and Buddhist mindfulness, provide novel, yet ancient approaches to teaching this awareness through their pedagogical framework. Contemplative or spiritual pedagogies are those whose approach involves the exploration of subjectivity through introspection and empathy practices like meditation, journaling, and activism. In all, as the practitioner of these traditions and the educator-researcher in the classroom, I performed a qualitative study in phenomenology. I taught an AP Physics C class influenced by the lens of this contemplative paradigm, although this was not detached from the usual curriculum or interventional by nature. From emergent themes in the past student work and evaluation of their experience, I discovered the following: when an educator applied the approach of these wisdom traditions into the classroom curriculum, the resulting environment impacted a positive learning experience as it pertained to engaging science as inquiry. This study had an ambition to provide a novel approach to teaching and learning inquiry informed by the above-mentioned traditions.

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