Protecting Environment by Education on the Foundation of the Value of Life

Abstrakt

The purpose of the article is to explain the process of education of children (indirect pedagogy in the educational space) to protect nature on the foundation of the value of respect for life (which is the ecological value) on the example of the magazine "Nasi Przyjaciele" [Our Friends], which in the period of the Second Republic of Poland (1918-1939) obtained a recommendation of the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education for the use of public schools - with qualification for students libraries. The article has an orderly structure referred to particular parts of a this work: practical activity in Circles of Young Friends of Animals, competitions for children, educational articles, stories for children, poems and puzzles. The basic source of the article is the monthly "Nasi Przyjaciele", issued by the Association of Animal Care in Cracow, in the years 1937-1939.