Stanisław Jedlewski’s System of Education and System of Youth Social Rehabilitation on the Grounds of Chosen Works Analysis

The purpose of the text is to present to the reader the main theses and assumptions that Stanisław Jedlewski presented in his scientific works2. Selected letters, whose content is based on social rehabilitation pedagogy and focused on reflection on the process of juvenile resocialisation, form a certain substantive whole, whose consistency is based on scientific evidence. From them emerges a new vision of the processes of: care-upbringing, resocialisation and education of juveniles. The analysed texts also have historical value, as the author’s reflections reveal a picture of the state prevailing in juvenile detention centres in the 1950s and 1960s. Due to its features, Stanisław Jedlewski’s collection of reflections, theses and postulates can be deemed pedagogy and included in the output of Polish pedagogical thought.