Nowe potrzeby na rynku pracy – nowa tożsamość uczniów i zadania nauczycieli w świetle projektów unijnych i matury z języka polskiego

Abstract

New demands of the labour market create a different view on students’ identity and teachers’ tasks. The article presents them in the light of the EU projects and the matura examination in Polish. The focus is on the consideration of students’ new needs from the point of view of the labour market demands. It leads to a proposition to develop student’s identity in a number of areas: – through the recognition of students’ current needs in relation to a particular person and translating them into values coming from culture-based texts, – through the recognition of the labour market demands in the context of social communication with elements of rhetoric, eristic and image building, – through group integration as well as joint trips and extra activities, – through discussion combining elements of psychology, self-presentation and students’ reading interests, – through the development of the skill of using student’s own style. Such understanding of identity makes it possible for a student to identify both with his own self and the motherland where he lives and will look for a job as well as with the environment he lives in, his family and the language in which he can properly communicate. It turns out that both students and Polish language teachers should learn how to find themselves in the new didactic situations. It results from the new possibilities offered by the EU projects aiming at increasing the attractiveness and quality of school’s educational offer through the development of students’ key competencies in the realm of the free mobility on the labour market. An alarming misunderstanding of the definition of paraphrase on the matura examination in Polish was also mentioned. Moreover, emphasised was the existence of teachers’ resistance towards students’ difference and spontaneity. The lack of willingness to make the effort of talking and compromising with students is also evident. Nevertheless, bringing up and teaching requires commitment from teachers.