Идентитет и добро у Јежевој кућици Бранка Ћопића (интерпретативни и методички оквир)
Identity and the Good in Hedgehog’s Home by Branko Ćopić (The Interpretative and Methodical Framework)

Summary/Abstract: The poem Hedgehog’s House is one of the earliest universally beloved literary texts in ex-Yugoslavia. Published in 1949 in Belgrade and Zagreb, it made it to the school required reading list in Zagreb in 1960. The fate of this work by Ćopić, as well as its place in the school required reading list, were affected by the 1990s and the political fate of Yugoslavia itself. The goal of this paper is to show the literary value which dislocates this poem by Ćopić from the ideological traps of reception, thanks to which the Hedgemond the Hunter and Ćopić’s famous lines survived the country in which the famous children’s poem had been written. The first part of the paper will be focused on the interpretation of the identity shaping of the character, especially from the angle of the famous contemporary theory of identity by Charles Taylor. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the review of the methodological apparatus in the school readers used in the first year of primary education. The goal of the second part is to elaborate on the question of the extent to which the teaching of the Serbian language and literature helps evaluate and determine the ethical and value coordinates of the main character and its world, potentially adopting them in the early schooling phase according the the reception shapes which are adapted to the age and the pedagogical approach.

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