WRITER

Anton Makarenko

1888 - 1939

Anton Makarenko

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko (Russian: Анто́н Семёнович Мака́ренко, Ukrainian: Антон Семенович Макаренко, romanized: Anton Semenovych Makarenko; 13 March [O.S. 1 March] 1888 – 1 April 1939), was a Soviet educator, social worker and writer. He became the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union; along with promoting principles in educational theory and practice. As one of the founders of Soviet pedagogy, he elaborated the theory and methodology of upbringing in self-governing child collectives and introduced the concept of productive labor into the educational system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Makarenko has received more than 176,706 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Anton Makarenko is the 614th most popular writer (down from 600th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 70th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Anton Makarenko is most famous for his work with juvenile delinquents in the Soviet Union. He believed that delinquents needed to be treated as human beings and not as criminals. He created a system that was based on education, rehabilitation, and labor.

Memorability Metrics

180k
Page Views (PV)
65.42
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
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Languages Editions (L)
5.98
Effective Languages (L*)
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Notable Works

The collective family

1967

Kleinere Veröffentlichungen 1932-1936

1976

Vospitanie v sovetskoǐ shkole

1966

Pedagogicheskai͡a︡ poėma

1936

Veröffentlichungen 1923-1931 [i.e. neunzehnhundertdreiundzwanzig bis neunzehnhunderteinunddreissig]

1976

A book for parents

Family & Relationships

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, Russian educator and novelist, was born on March 13, 1888, in the town of Belopolye, in Kharkov Gubernia, the Ukraine. Besides being a remarkable teacher, he was a profound theoretician and made a major contribution to Soviet pedagogics. Makarenko was an innovator. He worked out a new and original approach to the methodological foundations of pedagogy, a new theory of discipline - the "discipline of combating and surmounting difficulties" - and a system for the building of character. He laid great stress on the importance of home upbringing, and gave many valuable instructions in this field. To him we owe the first detailed elaboration of the educational significance of the collective. Another innovation was his remarkably profound "system of perspectives," the essence of which he defined in the following words: "Man must have something joyful ahead of him to live for. The true stimulus in human life is the morrow's joy.

1950

Page views of Anton Makarenkos by language

Over the past year Anton Makarenko has had the most page views in the Russian wikipedia edition with 184,882 views, followed by Spanish (30,467), and English (20,990). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bashkir (532.46%), Tajik (228.33%), and Italian (75.27%)