Cindy Blackstock was awarded the second annual Janusz Korczak Medal for Children’s Rights Advocacy at a moving ceremony organized in her honour by the BC Representative for Children and Youth office and the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada. The medal was awarded for Cindy’s outstanding contributions towards improving children’s rights in ways that encourage love for […]
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The Janusz Korczak Medal for Children’s Rights Advocacy
We are delighted to announce the recipient of the 2017 Janusz Korczak Medal for Children’s Rights Advocacy, Dr. Cindy Blackstock. We would like to warmly invite you to join us at the award ceremony honouring Dr. Blackstock.
Read More >Roman Wroblewski Wasserman’s Review of Lea Lipiner’s Biography of Shlomo Nadel
To review a work when it is written by two authors, can present a dilemma. The one author who tells the story, and the other who writes it. I also belonged to the circle of those who heard directly from Shlomo, the story of his childhood and his young life. Now reading it written in […]
Read More >D. L. Berek’s Review of “Janusz Korczak: A Bibliography” by Galina Sanaeva and Olga Medvedeva-Nathoo
Bringing English-Language Sources of Janusz Korczak Together at Last A review by Daniel L. Berek There is an old piece of Hassidic wisdom that at any given time there are 36 tzadikkim, supremely good people. Their lives and deeds, it is believed, are such extraordinary examples of kindness and compassion that they hold the ability […]
Read More >Review of “White House in a Grey City” by Itzchak Belfer
By Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. December 2016. This portrayal of a Jewish child’s life in the 1920s and 30s in Warsaw is a very moving and detailed autobiography by a gifted writer and artist who grew up in the orphanage run by Janusz Korczak and his colleagues and includes many pictures he drew of the orphanage […]
Read More >The Janusz Korczak Association of Canada Graduate Scholarship
Claudia Diaz, a Ph. D. candidate at the UBC Faculty of Education, is the second recipient of the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada Graduate Scholarship in Children’s Rights and Canadian Indigenous Education. The Scholarship is offered to an outstanding graduate student in the Faculty of Education whose research is focused on children’s rights and/or Canadian […]
Read More >Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Janusz Korczak, the Father of Children’s Rights, Turning Rights into Action
Hélène (Sioui) Trudel, C.Q. – Presentation Dr. Gilles Julien, MD, social pediatrician – Presentation The Music Garage, the first annual lecture of the Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Janusz Korczak, the Father of Children’s Rights, Turning Rights into Action series, took place on November 11, 2016 at the University of British Columbia. The distinguished speakers were […]
Read More >International Korczak Association General Council Meeting
International Korczak Association General Council Meeting took place in Lage Vuursche, Holland, at a Janusz Korczak conference entitled “Trust as Foundation of Emotional Safety”. The conference was organized by the Dutch Janusz Korczak Association, October 12 -16, 2016. Jerry Nussbaum represented the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada. Members of the fifteen participating associations presented their […]
Read More >Faculty of Education Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Lecture
The Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada present the Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Lecture on November 10, 2016 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM, at Ponderosa Commons East Ballroom, 6445 University Boulevard. The Lecture, The Music Garage, a transdisciplinary and trans-systemic integrated education program, features two […]
Read More >Janusz Korczak at Camp Miriam
At Camp Miriam, on picturesque Gabriola Island off the coast of British Columbia, a beautiful new pavilion was dedicated in honor of Dr. Janusz Korczak. Below is an account of the day’s events from one of the invited guests, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz, a board member of the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada. Janusz Korczak in Camp […]
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