Piosenki dziecięce o szkole i przedszkolu jako narzędzia konstruowania „dzieci organizacji”
Children’s Songs About School and Kindergarten as Tools for Constructing the ‘Organization Children’

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of the research on the image of institutional education occurring in contemporary Polish children’s songs. The lyrics of the songs were subjected to a qualitative analysis in order to reveal the features constituting the image of the kindergarten and primary school contained in them. The research has revealed a tendency to show these educational institutions as places focused on shaping the so-called ‘organization children’, fully subordinated to institutions (Moss Kanter 1972). In the analysed songs the discourse of a child defined as a ‘pre-human being’ is clearly present (Męczkowska-Christiansen 2010): the children are thought to require strict control and constant intervention from adults. Among the tools useful in disciplining the pupils, the authors of the songs mention, among others: pre-school routine, rigid rules in institutions, the assessment process (especially the school marks), and other attributes of teachers’ authority (including: class register, school bell). The analysis and interpretation of the songs led the author to the conclusion that they not only reflect the traditional educational model that is very popular in Poland, but also consolidate it in the linguistic image of the world.

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