Nina Mikhailovna Aksarina

Nina Michailovna Aksarina (* 1899 in Ivanovo ; † October 21, 1979 in Moscow ) was a Russian educator and made significant contributions to the pedagogy of early childhood.

Career

She was born in 1899 to a family of civil servants and graduated from Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1924 . She then worked as an inspector of the Institute for Maternal and Baby Protection in Moscow, as an area inspector of the Health Department in the Urals, and finally as the head of the children's health sector in the Ministry of Health of the USSR .

From 1949 she was a lecturer for medical training and was entrusted with the establishment of an educational department at the chair of pediatrics , where she was appointed professor . In 1967, this department became the only and first chair in the physiology of the development and upbringing of children in the USSR. With her work she laid the scientific foundation for the education of young children and influenced the basic direction for work in day nurseries and homes. On this basis, u. a. child health protection in the German Democratic Republic . Her life's work comprised over 150 publications and also influenced the pedagogical aspects of infant and child care .

literature

• Karl Zwiener: In memoriam - Nina Michailowna Aksarina in Heilberufe, issue 32, 1980. p. 257
• Horst-Peter Wolff: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Care , Ullstein Mosby, 1997, ISBN 3-86126-628-8 . Pp. 2-3