Skatinimo ir bausmių sampratos raida Lietuvos pedagogikoje

The article aims demonstrating the development of attitude towards incentive and discipline measures in Lithuanian pedagogy. The research revealed the following: 1) up to the 20th century, methods of incentive and discipline measures were discussed on the theoretical level—first of all basing them on heritage of the antique world and later on the pedagogical idea of the Western Europe and Russia—and the first empirical studies emerged only few decades ago, which allowed making conclusions regarding peculiarities pertaining to methods of incentive and discipline measures applied in families and ascertaining the attitude of pedagogues towards use of discipline measures; 2) in time, the scale of incentive measures extended while the scale of discipline measures decreased as the attitude toward the significance of their use changed: up to the end of the 19th century, physical and derogatory discipline measures were regarded as effective educating methods, and later—up until the middle of the 20th century—such discipline measures started to be questioned and reprobated as it was acknowledged that a child needs to be encouraged more than punished, although the research shows that in Lithuania, parents rather frequently physically punish children and humiliate them by punishing, and pedagogues tolerate such punishments in a family setting. 3) Requirements for application of methods continued increasing—at the beginning parents and teachers were using incentive and discipline measures differently, justly, disciplining without fury; and later it was required to discipline a child sincerely at the right place and time, avoiding collective punishments; and presently, more it is focused on applying incentive and discipline measures depending on child’s individuality