Political implications of literary education. Analysis of the reading lists in high schools after 1989 Cover Image

Polityczne implikacje edukacji literackiej. Analiza spisów lektur obowiązujących w liceach po 1989 roku
Political implications of literary education. Analysis of the reading lists in high schools after 1989

Author(s): Anna Heleniak
Subject(s): School education, History of Education, State/Government and Education, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: control of educational discourse; symbolic control; core curriculum; reading canon;

Summary/Abstract: Analyzes of educational discourse often prove that knowledge transmitted to individuals in the course of education is knowledge constructed and “prepared” in accordance with the interests of dominating groups. This article deals with the problem of reading canons of high school students announced by the government after 1989. The first part of the article describes the main tool of control of educational discourse by the state – the core curriculum; subsequent parts present the analysis of changes in the reading list made by subsequent governments of the Third Republic; the last part, based on press discourse, attempts to interpret some of these changes.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 1 (11)
  • Page Range: 26-43
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish