Być stąd. O formacyjną wartość polonistycznej edukacji regionalnej (na przykładzie Nowej Huty)

Abstract

The author presents possibilities and educational value of creating a reflexive attitude of Polish philology students in relation to their own local identity. She emphasizes the particular role of a reflexive “being” in the nearest world in noticing current determinants of the shaping of self-identification of particular people and groups, as well as contemporary problems of regionalism and school regional education. For Polish Philology students, one of the means to start a reflection upon creating one’s own identification in the dynamically changing world can be creating identity narrations which include one’s own background: I am from… The analysis of such self-narrations can help to unveil current determinants of identity processes. It encourages people to deepen studies on methods of creating bonds with a place and local society within the process of Polish philology education. The last part of the article depicts the use of narrative concept of identity in social and artistic projects of Nowa Huta and in educational practice. It mainly serves to maintain intergenerational transmission of values and to shape bonds with places of baffling heritage.