TY - JOUR N2 - Childhood is a category which came to social awareness and scientific research relatively late. The discovery of childhood can be associated with the names of different thinkers and educators. In this article, I will undertake an attempt to reconstruct selected views about the child and childhood coming from J.J. Rousseau and J. Korczak. The first figure is said to be the discoverer of childhood in modern Europe, while the second one is the discoverer of childhood in Polish education, and a progenitor of the modern meaning of childhood. The analyzes that I conduct shows the evolution of understanding of this category. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109694/PDF/MARZENNA%20NOWICKA%20Studia%20pedagogiczne%202015%20LXVIII-15.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109694 PY - 2015 EP - 219 KW - childhood KW - child KW - Rousseau KW - Korczak KW - the discovery of childhood A1 - Nowicka, Marzenna PB - Komitet Nauk Pedagogicznych PAN i Wydział Pedagogiki i Psychologii Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku VL - tom LXVIII DA - 2015[2015.01.01 AD - 2015.12.31 AD] T1 - Discovering the childhood by Rousseau and Korczak – reflections about the evolution of meanings SP - 207 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109694 T2 - Studia Pedagogiczne ER -