Education for a healty life in harmony with nature – pedagogical and historical implications

Abstract

The purpose of the article is an explanation/justification how to realize the process of educating children for a healthy lifestyle and ecological awareness - with care for environmental protection, ecological order in the social and natural environment. The sources of the articles are the archives and printed materials published in the period of the II Republic of Poland (1918-1939). The main source is based on „Młody Przyjaciel Zwierząt i Kółko Przyrodnicze”. Thanks to works printed in the analyzed magazines ecological attitudes were developed, bonds with nature were shaped, children and youths were encouraged to take an active part in the celebrations of "The Day of the Forest/Trees Planting Day"/Forest and Environmental Protection Day", "Kindness for Animals Day" and to act practically and regularly in school sections/lovers of nature, birds, environmental protection, circles of young friends of animals.  There are reasons to hope that the heritage of the idea based culture and normative culture in the scope education  for a healty life in harmony with nature will still evolve creatively in the general tendency of the postmodern culture and it will be a creative inspiration for the educational practise of the 21^st century.