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Deprecjacja zawodu nauczyciela w polskim dyskursie prasowym z okresu zdalnej edukacji
Depreciation of the Teaching Profession in the Polish Press Discourse From the Period of Distance Education

Author(s): Justyna Dobrołowicz
Subject(s): Media studies, Sociology of Education, Distance learning / e-learning, Pedagogy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: discourse; critical discourse analysis; opinion-forming press; depreciation; teacher; remote education;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze the ways of presenting teachers during distance learning in texts published in Polish opinion-forming weeklies. Opinion weeklies, having a limited informational function, focus on shaping the public opinion and social attitudes of readers. Getting to know the press image of institutions, events or phenomena is very important, because the way of writing about them determines how people understand them and how to behave towards them. The method of analyzing the 18 press texts selected for the study is a critical discourse analysis, which was used to answer the following research question: what linguistic means were used in the discourse on remote teacher work and what the effects of this discourse may be. In the analyzed texts on distance education, mainly expressions with a clearly negative semantic character are used, which in turn leads to the discrediting of teachers and shapes the belief that there is a crisis situation in education.

  • Issue Year: 14/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 21-34
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish