Orientowanie się w przestrzeni bez przestrzeni – o budowaniu świadomości przestrzennej w edukacji wczesnoszkolnej
Orientating in a space without space – about building spatial awareness in early school education

Summary/Abstract: Orientation in physical space is a skill that allows functioning well in everyday life. The task of theschool is to support this skill. The article presents the results of an analysis of 3 packages of schooltextbooks intended for I–III classes of primary school. It was agreed that textbook instructionsconcerning building spatial awareness are of a narrow instrumental nature and are focused solelyon achieving efficiency in school understanding. The focus is on static situations organized in theclassroom and exercises on the plane. Children acquire only knowledge about space, and do not accumulateuseful experience related to everyday functioning in it.

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