Published: 2023-07-04

How to be of the world? The geological turn and Polish studies/fieldwork humanities at school

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Section: ECO(GLOTTO)DIDACTICS
https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.31.03

Abstract

This article is devoted to the issue of field humanities and the possibilities of its application in school education. The author, referring to the research conducted by Monika Bakke, argues for the necessity of rereading the canon of books not only in the context of engaged humanities, using ecocritical methodology, but, above all, relating well-known school set texts to the geological turn. Such a practice would make it possible to include geological reflection in the interpretation of literary texts, thanks to which Polish language lessons would open up to a new actant of plots hitherto poorly present in school Polish studies: rocks and earth. The readings of the Moomins series, Juliusz Słowacki’s Kordian and Czesław Miłosz’s The
Issa Valley, as well as interpretative guidelines for other works proposed by the author of this article, show how geological reflection can ‘disenchant’ a text without the risk of losing its literariness. The aim of proposing a reading of selected literary texts from the perspective of the geological turn is to enable the
questioning of anthropocentric certainties and the development of new modes of perception. Moreover, such a way of reading would lead to uncovering the ideological sources of the layered and naturalised rules and conventions of literature, rarely subjected to critical scrutiny in school.

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Wójcik-Dudek, M. (2023). How to be of the world? The geological turn and Polish studies/fieldwork humanities at school. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 31(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.31.03

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Vol. 31 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 2023-10-16


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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