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Title:

Between tradition and the present. The picture of family in Polish textbooks for middle school students

Subject and Keywords:

educational discourse   middle school   family model   identity

Abstract:

I will speak about the picture of family emerging from Polish textbooks for middle school students. The third stage of education was picked purposefully, as it ties in with an important developmental phase for students. Early adolescence is when young people shape their identity in an extraordinarily intense way. They do so by carefully observing the world and, making use of their more clearly defined moral autonomy, by critically assessing the behaviours and attitudes of adults around them. Taking into account the strongly declared, in the 1999 reform, formational approach to teaching Polish in middle school, it should be assumed that the literary and cultural materials chosen by textbook authors will first and foremost serve to create a particular picture of the family. It is therefore worth checking to what extent the resulting picture of the family is a ‘model’ construction, significant for the authors’ perspective on to proper upbringing, and to what extent it is a true reflection of contemporary experiences that form a part of middle school students’ everyday life. This issue is an important one because the textbook narrative is only one of the numerous aspects of formational discourse that reach young people in middle schools; very often, it is not the most important aspect. The ultimate purpose of my analysis is not to reconstruct the picture of family existing at present in the educational discourse, but rather to answer the question of how the messages in textbooks fit with contemporary societal challenges (changes in culture and customs, the shrinking private sphere).

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Zakład Historii Edukacji Instytutu Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2017

Detailed Type:

journal

Identifier:

ISSN 2082-9019   e-ISSN 2300-5866

DOI:

doi:10.23734/wwr20171.381.398

Source:

Pdg P 343

Language:

pol

Relation:

Wychowanie w Rodzinie, T. 15 (1/2017)

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Rights holder:

Copyright by Jerzy Kaniewski

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

h.w.