Balogh Zoltán (szerk.): Neograd 2017. Tanulmányok a 70 éves Praznovszky Mihály tiszteletére - A Dornyay Béla Múzeum Évkönyve 40. (Salgótarján, 2017)
Történelem - Bódi Györgyné: Domokos Lászlóné Löllbach Emma Eleonóra (1885–1966)
GYÖRGYNÉ BÓDI MRS. DOMOKOS, LÖLLBACH EMMA (1885-1966) A great educator and psychologist, founder and director of the „New School” (1915-1949), she was the initiator of the New School movement in Hungary, a disciple and collaborator of László Nagy, who is not very well known in her hometown and county. She finished elementary school in Salgótarján, the high school in Besztercebánya. She got her educational bachelor degré at the Teacher Training College of Csalogány street in Budapes, she got her master degré in the Erzsébet Womanschool, in history and language and became a highschool teacher. She understood the essence of the work of László Nagy titled „The psychologist of childlike interest” which was that instead of overly intellectual school education, the development of individuality and individual free creative activity should be served. She studied with her colleagues the English, Belgian, French, German, Swiss and Austrian initiatives and was ready to implement them. She offered her own money and the building owned by her family in Buda, at 16-18. Biro street, which was expanded by her architect brother to realise the noble purpose. Initially she operated a four-grade, coeducated elementary school, followed by four-grade girl middle school, then a girl lyceum and grammar school Her work was attended by the staff of the university departments, the Pedagogical and Psychological Institute of the University of Szeged. What was the essence of her pedagogical work? - Developing students’ creative work, childlike fantasy, combined skills, self-reliance, strengthening the initiative and the free choice, productive and reproductive work. These principles were realized by Mrs. Domokos, Emma Löllbach and her pedagogues companions during several decades of teaching and educational work, and these principles can serve as an example in Hungarian education. 106
