A. S. Makarenko Reference Archive

Lectures to Parents


Source: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1961;
Translation: Elizabeth Moos;
Online Version: Sally Ryan for the A. S. Makarenko Reference Archive (marxists.org) 2002.

Transcriber's note: These texts are lectures that were given by Makarenko over the radio in 1937. They were published in the Literaturnaia Gazetta after he died in 1939, and also in the Collected Works of Makarenko, Vol. 4, 1951. These were the first English translations of those lectures.


 

Contents

1. GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR BRINGING UP A FAMILY
2. PARENTAL AUTHORITY
3. DISCIPLINE
4. PLAY
5. THE FAMILY ECONOMY
6. WORK EDUCATION
7. SEX EDUCATION
8. DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL INTERESTS