We invite you as Polish language specialists, literary scholars, linguists, educators, psychologists and representatives of natural sciences to prepare texts for the 34th volume of the annual “Z Teorii i Praktyki Dydaktycznej Języka Polskiego”

entitled Polonistyka i jej sąsiedztwa – sploty, relacje, inspiracje (Polonistics and its Neighbourhoods – Entanglements, Relationships, Inspirations).

The 2025 issue will be devoted to the intertwining of polonistics with other disciplines, resulting from the challenges of the 21st century.

The proposed thematic areas are as follows:

· Polish studies in the face of climate challenges – literature and the environmental crisis, ecocriticism, environmental education, ecolinguistics

· locality and geography/biology, history/culture of the region in Polish studies education – cultural texts as a space for building regional identity, pedagogy of place, new dimensions of genius loci, PBL (Place Based Learning)

· Polish language and literature and other school subjects – didactic connections with nature, computer science, mathematics, history, civic education, music...

· Linguodidactics in integration with other disciplines, new dictionaries in education

· Polish studies and medicine – literature in the face of illness, suffering and health, therapeutic narratives, humanization of medicine through literature, language and medicine

· Polish studies and the geopolitical and historical situation – literature as a witness and interpreter of history, cultural texts in the context of contemporary conflicts and social change, ways of learning

· Polish studies and culture, art (music, visual arts)

· the future of reading and reinterpretation of the past - changing reading habits, the canon of reading in the 21st century, cultural memory, new methodologies

· field Polish studies - education in motion, literature in space, didactics outside the school walls

· digital Polish studies – new media in Polish studies education, literature in the digital age, artificial intelligence in the work of a Polish studies teacher, artificial intelligence and text creation, digital linguistics

· between Polish studies didactics and glottodidactics – entanglements and challenges.

We also have a 'Varia' section in this issue.

We invite you to take a look at the indicated topics and to send article proposals (working titles and short descriptions) to the editorial office at ztipdjp@us.edu.pl by March 20, 2025.

We are waiting for finished texts until May 6, 2025.

Guidelines for submitting texts can be found on the OJS UŚ website: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/TPDJP/about/submissions

Submitted articles are initially evaluated by the editorial staff. The final decision on whether to publish an article is made based on the evaluation of two independent reviewers (double blind peer review).

The annual “On the Theory and Didactic Practice of Polish Language” is included in the following databases: CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO, ERIH+, Europeana.eu, Google Scholar, ICI Journals Master List, Modern Language Association International Bibliography.

Best regards and we look forward to working with you,

editors of the volume: Agnieszka Kania (Jagiellonian University), Magdalena Ochwat (University of Silesia)

Interdisciplinary Polish Studies – what does that mean? In his book Kultura jako czasownik (Culture as a Verb), Ryszard Nycz suggests that the new humanities include many diverse fronts, orientations, directions, and turns on the borderline of disciplines, interweavings and interdisciplinary reconfigurations, which are not so much philosophical and scientific as existential and worldview-related (Nycz, 2017). These trends undoubtedly expand the research fields of the humanities, benefiting from other fields of science - exact, natural, social or, for example, art. They do not build walls to protect the autonomy of the sciences, as was the case at the time of the anti-positivist breakthrough, when boundaries, preservation of the separateness of methods, and sovereignty were important. Rather, they open up different disciplines to each other and draw on each other's resources. Closely related to these phrases are the tropes of “networks”, “bonds”, “interweavings”, “knots”, “tangles”, and not the figure of “breaking” (Czapliński, 2017).

The changing research approach leads to the formation of scientific alliances also in the relatively new discipline of Polish studies. They allow for a better understanding of contemporary problems. Therefore, in the new issue of “ZTiPDJP”, we are interested in both theoretical reflection and practical didactic applications that can contribute to the development of new methods and tools for teaching Polish in the context of the broadly understood intertwining of Polish studies with other sciences. We are also aware of the difficulties that arise from conducting both in-depth research within a given discipline and cross-disciplinary research, located at the intersection of different disciplines and being in a full-fledged dialogue - without “subjective egocentrism”, as described by Witold Bobiński in the book Uczyć po ludzku. Literature in the light of the ecology of education (Bobiński, 2023).

The Polish school has moved away from interdisciplinarity, focusing on homogeneous teaching models. We would therefore like to discuss the need for a new approach - one that is more holistic and integrates different areas of knowledge. Donna Haraway is right when she writes that “interdisciplinarity is risky, but what else would new things feed on?” Interdisciplinarity not only fosters new scientific discoveries, but also helps in multidimensional thinking (Goodeve, 2023).

Nycz R., Kultura jako czasownik. Sondowanie nowej humanistyki, Warszawa 2017.

Czapliński P., Sploty, „Teksty Drugie” 2017, nr 1.

Bobiński W., Uczyć po ludzku. Literatura w świetle ekologii edukacji, Kraków 2023.

Jestem listotą. Donna J. Haraway w rozmowie z Thyrzą Nichols Goodeve, przeł. A. Derra, Poznań 2023.