Skąd się bierze i na czym polega „szkolna schizofrenia”?
What is „school schisophrenia” and how did it come to being?

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of the results of the analysis of selected public debates devoted to schoolhumanistic education, the author of the article attempts to describe the condition of Polishlanguage and literature teachers, and to reconstruct the sources of the disintegration ofrelations between thoughts, emotions and behaviour, which have been sometimes referredto as “school schizophrenia”. Among these sources there are permanent changes in thesyllabus, school reforms, authorities who decide upon these changes, the introduction andthe character of the changes, the method of measurements of the results of Polish languageteachers’ work, as well as the cult of standards and procedures. The final part of the articleoffers a reflection upon the possibility to teach students on the basis of one’s own values,beliefs, knowledge and competences in such diverse and complex social and political context.

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