A few recipes for school, that is, the concept of “school” in the first chapter of the „Act on the education system” Cover Image

Kilka przepisów na szkołę, czyli o pojęciu „szkoła” w 1. rozdziale „Ustawy o systemie oświaty”
A few recipes for school, that is, the concept of “school” in the first chapter of the „Act on the education system”

Author(s): Diana Jagodzińska
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Civil Law, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Western Slavic Languages, School education, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: legal texts; the „Act on the education system”; educational law; legal definitions; specialist language; linguistic image of the world; school

Summary/Abstract: The article is aimed at exploring the meaning of the term “school” in selected regulations of educational law. It explains the specificity of legal texts and the rules governing the establishing of the principles of functioning in the public sphere in their content. Next, it presents the motives for the modification of commonly understood ideas in the text of the legal act. The described phenomenon has been illustrated with the school image reconstructed on the basis of the content of Chapter 1 of the „Act on the education system”. In the given passage, the ways of defining the term “school” and their relation to the tasks imposed on the school by the text of the Act have been analyzed. Thus the article reproduces the linguistic image of school, which lies at the basis of the established regulations and therefore should be taken into account when adopting the educational law.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 265-275
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish