Przestrzeń wolności i odpowiedzialności w pracy naukowo-dydaktycznej Władysława Szyszkowskiego

Abstract

This article presents various spheres of scientific-didactic activity of Władysław Szyszkowski in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland. The article outlines the political context, which significantly limited the space of unrestrained development of literature didactics and at the same time, the area of a scientist’s freedom. In this perspective, Professor Szyszkowski is presented as a realist who took into consideration the contemporary circumstances of Polish-philological education, but first of all as a scientist, who, without resigning from his scientific beliefs, was willing to become familiar with other viewpoints and to confront them. The article emphasizes Szyszkowski’s remarkable attitude, characterized by the ability to notice and define important educational problems, searching for reliable scientific bases to solve them, and wise criticism in the evaluation of the suggested solutions, i.e. avoiding extreme opinions on certain viewpoints or making other issues open.