Social work in the local environment in the theoretical thought of Helena Radlińska

Abstract

The subject of this paper is the concept of providing environmental aid included in the work of Helena Orsza Radlińska (1879-1954), creator of the Polish school of social pedagogy, recognized as the greatest classics of this scientific discipline in Poland. Considerations undertaken by her since the first decade of the past century on the subject and tasks of social pedagogy have been based on multidimensional exploration, team research and experiments, and have also benefited from the achievements of social sciences and sciences devoted to humans, such as: medicine or agriculture.