Abstract:
On April 27th, 2007, Magda Gerber passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at her home in Silverlake, Los Angeles. Magda was well into
her nineties. Through her work over the past decades, she has brought to the world a focus on
parents and educators 'seeing' an infant in a more respectful way. Her ideas emerged from her work at the Pikler Institute in Budapest with Dr. Emmi Pikler, where she cared for infants who
had been abandoned. In the United States, Magda advocated educators take a respectful approach to educare !the term coined by Magda to emphasise
the blend of education in care), which she felt could promote a more peaceful approach that could ultimately create a more peaceful world.
