Lekcja polskiego w płynnej nowoczesności. Uczeń jako aktor kulturowy

Abstract

The author poses a question of the model of Polish language education required by contemporary students as well as diagnoses the situation of adolescents in the postmodern cultural environment. He also indicates the drawbacks of the examination system that Polish language education must reckon and designs an anthropological methodology of artistic texts reading as a counterbalance to the formalized reading methods. The first part of the article discusses the status of a literary work in the context of the most recent anthropological concepts (M.P. Markowski) as well as postmodern and liquid-modern sociological spins (Z. Bauman, U. Beck). Indication of literature as a message directly connected with experience is an incentive for the treatment of reading as an individual adventure halfway between reality and language. The main part of the article is devoted to the presentation of a method: a student as a cultural actor. It was designed to make it easier for teachers to initiate and realize the anthropologized process of literature teaching (D. Attdridge). The article presents an outline of activities within the framework of the method. Each of the lesson stages comprises a number of optional elements in order to show the multiplicity of the subjective aspects of student’s activity. A Polish language lesson conducted according to this method assumes the development of student’s individual reactions and should consist in the integration of his or her individual beliefs into the reading process.