Antiautoritäre Erziehung
"Antiautoritäre Erziehung" refers to a group of pedagogic concepts that was developed in Germany in the late 1960s and 1970s. In French it is known as éducation antiautoritaire.
In English, no equivalent term exists. The term "antiauthoritarian education" is mainly found in translations from German; it is a direct translation of the term, but badly worded because in English, "antiauthoritarian" refers mainly to anti-authoritarianism in politics. Roughly corresponding terms to antiautoritäre Erziehung could be non-coercive education or "permissive parenting", but none is a direct equivalent.
A common characteristic of the concepts is the absence or minimization of rules that are given and enforced by the adults. Punishment is generally avoided because it is seen as a form of tyranny of the adult over the child, breaking their self-development. Spanking or other forms of corporal punishment are completely out of the question in antiautoritäre Erziehung. The anti-spanking movement is much older than antiautoritäre Erziehung, and the 1960s/70s movement went much further.
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