Edukacja na rzecz klimatu przez fotografię i słowo. Przypadek „Gazety Strajkowej” #3

Justyna Hanna Budzik; Magdalena Ochwat; Piotr Skubała

doi:10.31261/TPDJP.2023.32.14

Published: 2023-02-16

Vol. 32 (2023)

An Education for the Climate Through Photography and Words: The Case of the „Gazeta Strajkowa” #3

Justyna Hanna Budzik

, Magdalena Ochwat

, Piotr Skubała

Section: Literary and Cultural Education

https://doi.org/10.31261/TPDJP.2023.32.14

Abstract

The aim of our paper is to analyse the 3rd issue of the “Gazeta Strajkowa” [“Strike Newspaper”] on School Strike for Climate. The publication consists of photographs taken between 2019 and 2021 by photographers engaged in the Public Protest Archive, which is a digital repository documenting social protests in Poland after 2015. The subject of the analysis are photos, graphics representing selected slogans appearing on strike banners and various accompanying forms of texts, such as an editorial by Filip Springer, voices of activists, information on our planet’s condition and the strike demands. It has been found that the banners and symbols used by young strikers symbolise their striving for an immediate limitation of global climate change and for the implementation of solutions recommended by scientific communities. In the article, an attempt has been made at verifying whether or not some exemplary slogans from the banners correspond to scientific statements. Mention has also been made of the key emotions of activists represented in the photographs and how they affect the viewers’ emotions. The last part of the paper gives ideas on how to use the newspaper in humanities education for the climate.

Keywords:

School Strike for Climate , humanities education , documentary photography , activism , education for the climate

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Budzik, J. H., Ochwat, M., & Skubała, P. (2023). An Education for the Climate Through Photography and Words: The Case of the „Gazeta Strajkowa” #3. Z Teorii I Praktyki Dydaktycznej Języka Polskiego, 32, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.31261/TPDJP.2023.32.14

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Justyna Hanna Budzik

justyna.budzik@us.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-0761

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University of Silesia in Katowice Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Justyna Hanna Budzik – film scholar and teacher of Polish as a foreign language. Author of books: Polski film i fotografia nowego wieku na tle kultury wizualnej. Widma, antropocienie, sztandary [Polish Film and Photography of the New Century against the Background of Visual Culture. Spectres, Anthroposhades, Banners] (Katowice 2023), Filmowe cuda i sztuczki magiczne. Szkice z archeologii kina [Film Miracles and Magic Tricks. Sketches from the Archaeology of Cinema] (Katowice 2015) and Dotyk światła. O zmysłowym doznawaniu kina [The Touch of Light. On the Sensual Experience of Cinema] (Katowice 2012), co-author (with Agnieszka Tambor) of the publication Polska półka filmowa. Krótkometrażowe filmy aktorskie i animowane w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego [Polish Film Shelf. Short live-action and animated films in teaching Polish as a foreign language] (Katowice 2018). Polish language teacher at INALCO in Paris (2016/2017), winner of the Fulbright Slavic Award at the University of Washington in Seattle (2017/2018). Professionally and academically researches film education and teaching Polish culture.

Magdalena Ochwat

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0178-165X

Affiliation:

University of Silesia in Katowice Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Magdalena Ochwat – Doctor of Humanities, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies of the University of Silesia in Katowice, affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Humanistic Education of the University of Silesia. Her research interests focus on Polish language education, the use of literary reportage in education and the social responsibility of school reading. She is interested in the challenges of the 21st century: global crises, migration, climate change and multiculturalism. Editor-in-chief of the journal “Z Teorii i Praktyki Dydaktycznej Języka Polskiego” [From the Theory and Didactic Practice of the Polish Language] and coordinator of the University of Polish Language Teachers programme under the POWER project. Participant of the School of Ecopoetics. Cooperates with Europe Direct Śląskie and the city of Katowice in introducing climate education.

Piotr Skubała

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9209-0167

Affiliation:

University of Silesia in Katowice Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Piotr Skubała – professor, PhD, employee of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice, ecologist, acarologist. Author of 186 scientific articles, 57 chapters in monographs or monographs, 39 scientific reports and 165 popular science articles. Environmental ethicist, ecological educator, nature conservationist, climate activist. “Ethic expert” at the European Commission in Brussels (in the HORIZON 2020, HORIZON-MSCA-2022 programmes), member of the Expert Team on Ethical Issues at the National Science Centre, member of the Team Europe expert network established by the European Commission member of the Climate Council at the United Nations Global Compact Network Poland. Regular contributor to the monthly journals “AURA. Ochrona środowiska” and the “Dzikie Życie”. Co-organiser of the Festival of Ecological Culture “Zielono Mi” (2007–2014), organiser and co-leader of the meetings of the Ecological Thought Club (since 2012). Author of numerous lectures, workshops, courses at his home university, other universities in the country and abroad, for various institutions. Cooperates with local, national and foreign media as an expert and populariser of science in the field of ecology and environmental protection, climate crisis.

Vol. 32 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-31

ISSN: 0208-5011

eISSN: 2353-9577

10.31261/TPDJP

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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