Kilka uwag o pracy z tekstem poetyckim w gimnazjum

Abstract

The article presents the most important conclusions from the survey conducted by the author in 2005, on 600 lower secondary school (gimnazjum) pupils in the Lublin voivodship. The aim of the research was to diagnose youth’s attitude towards poetry and to evaluate Polish lessons devoted to poetry. The article also presents the main assumptions of the author’s independent project concerning text-based tasks, expressed in the form of postulates, created on the basis of pupils’ suggestions, e.g. the need to include modern literary texts in the Polishcourse curriculum for gimnazjum, also texts by young poets, representing cultural spheres of youth (hip-hop); emphasizing the cultural-tutorial character of the native language lessons; new opportunities for the Polish teacher functioning as a guide, facilitator and observer, who directs pupils towards the right reading and understanding of texts, and at the same time respects their right of particularization, and who selects the reading materials and the perspective of their understanding, and uses a wide range of modern methods of analysis and interpretation of a poetic text).