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<p>Upbringing is one of the main elements of human activity, which prepares one for one’s future life, giving one an opportunity to gain experience and confront reality. Contemporary mainstream pedagogical literature omits the only element of human existence that must happen, i.e. death. This absence determines a number of problems of an ethical, intellectual, organizational and practical nature in pedagogical works and analyses. A certain answer to this silence in pedagogy is thanatopedagogy, emerging and developing in Poland, which, with its scope of considerations and practical activities, captures a wide spectrum of the experience of mourning. A thanatopedagogical approach to the subject of mourning allows us to look at it through spiritual and religious, biological and physical, medical, psychopedagogical, socio-cultural, legal and economic prisms. Such a broad interdisciplinary approach also allows us to look at mourning as an all-encompassing process of experiencing oneself as an individual as well as experiencing oneself as part of culture and society.</p>
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Upbringing is one of the main elements of human activity, which prepares one for one’s future life, giving one an opportunity to gain experience and confront reality. Contemporary mainstream pedagogical literature omits the only element of human existence that must happen, i.e. death. This absence determines a number of problems of an ethical, intellectual, organizational and practical nature in pedagogical works and analyses. A certain answer to this silence in pedagogy is thanatopedagogy, emerging and developing in Poland, which, with its scope of considerations and practical activities, captures a wide spectrum of the experience of mourning. A thanatopedagogical approach to the subject of mourning allows us to look at it through spiritual and religious, biological and physical, medical, psychopedagogical, socio-cultural, legal and economic prisms. Such a broad interdisciplinary approach also allows us to look at mourning as an all-encompassing process of experiencing oneself as an individual as well as experiencing oneself as part of culture and society.

The Thanatopedagogical Context of the Multidimensionality of Mourning

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

Białostockie Studia Prawnicze

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Upbringing is one of the main elements of human activity, which prepares one for one’s future life, giving one an opportunity to gain experience and confront...

The Thanatopedagogical Context of the Multidimensionality of Mourning

Published Online: Sep 28, 2023

Page range: 215 - 258

Received: Dec 28, 2022

Accepted: Jun 13, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2023.28.03.10

Keywords
mourning, thanatic fear, thanatopedagogy, upbringing, therapy

© 2023 Józef Binnebesel, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Thanatopedagogical Context of the Multidimensionality of Mourning

Published Online: Sep 28, 2023

Page range: 215 - 258

Received: Dec 28, 2022

Accepted: Jun 13, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2023.28.03.10

Keywordsmourning, thanatic fear, thanatopedagogy, upbringing, therapy

© 2023 Józef Binnebesel, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
mourning, thanatic fear, thanatopedagogy, upbringing, therapy