| dc.description.abstract | Answering the question posed in the title, the author assumes that the introduction in the
field of knowledge will be taking place truly and honestly owing to the scientific knowledge,
e.g. about the original context, with consideration of numerous sources of the European
culture, reading original works in different contexts. In the field of identity, on the other
hand, the introduction will take place without religious ideologization of traditions together
with abandoning the religious stance for the sake of the exploratory one. Formerly Polish
knowledge and identity were intertwined into the service of the communist ideology and
currently they dangerously yield to the religious ideology. The phenomenon manifests itself
through the choice of literary works of art, reading them in the religious stance, omission of
vast areas of knowledge and almost automatically defining the foundations of the European
culture as Christian.
The author abandons old metaphors of bases, foundations and sources for the sake of
understanding knowledge as schemas, scenarios and frameworks. As frameworks or
grounds of Polish language education which forms knowledge-based cultural identity of
students he enumerates: 1. the notion of Europe and the sources/roots of the European
culture not reduced to Christianity combined with the Greek and Roman cultures; 2. Indo-
European heritage combined with Hindu Vedas; 3. pre-Christian Polish and Slavic culture,
paganism; 4. familiarization with pagan mythologies: Polish, Slavic, Germanic, Celtic;
5. Western components of the European culture: Asian, Jewish, Islamic, Arab; 6. millennia of
the existence of Byzantium whose absence creates a huge gap in our knowledge; 7. the notion
of Mediterranean culture (also encompassing the eastern and northern shores of Africa:
Egyptian, Libyan and Moroccan). | en |
