Naukowe podstawy dydaktyki polonistycznej, czyli syndrom Maklakiewicza

Abstract

The author expresses the opinion about the shaky status of the scientific basis of literary didactics. That wide domain consists of the elements of many various branches of science which are now in a process of changing – especially the literary theory or the theory of interpretation. The eclectic nature of literary didactics and the “earthquake” of postmodern thought make literary didactics less stable and less methodologically-equipped. Additionally, teachers of literature may (or even should) search for an inspiration, not only in the humanities (e.g. the theory of chaos may be very inspiring). That is why the future teachers of literature should (at the very beginning of their work) experience the Maklakiewicz syndrom (a Polish actor who pretended not to be a qualified one), that means – suspend the belief in an inflexible basis of their discipline and find their individual way of teaching.