Odpowiedzialność w warunkach szkoły-marketu. Głosy z III i IV Forum Edukacyjnego Towarzystwa Literackiego im. Adama Mickiewicza
Responsibility in market-like school. Views from the Third and Fourth Educational Fora of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society

Author(s): Lidia Wiśniewska
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: market-like school; school’s identity; “pedagogy of pleasure”; control;
Summary/Abstract: The voice on Responsibility in market-like school. Views from the Third and Fourth Educational Fora of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society indicates a specific connection between “pedagogy of pleasure” regarding a student and bureaucratically extended control regarding school and academic teachers. Under such conditions, educating is perceived as preparing clients for the demands of the labour market while a teacher’s role boils down to that of a salesman making use of advertising. However, this discrediting of school’s identity undermines the position of a teacher and demoralises the student who assumes a demanding attitude. On the other hand, the teacher becomes incapacitated and unable to perform his or her basic task because, in the two parties’ mutual assessment, there appear mechanisms working against high quality of education. Thus, the situation requires protecting the all-level educational system from this type of policy, especially protecting and self-protecting of the humanistic communities.

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