Outdoor Carpet Hanger: a Silent Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. An Essay about Losing Childhood Cover Image

Trzepak – milczący Dr Jekyll i Mr Hyde – esej o traconym dzieciństwie
Outdoor Carpet Hanger: a Silent Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. An Essay about Losing Childhood

Author(s): Edyta Nieduziak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: carpet hanger; pedagogy of things; childhood; education

Summary/Abstract: Within pedagogy of things, and more specifically, biography of things, this essay reflects the carpet hanger as part of the environment in which educational processes take place. The author tries to capture the existence of the carpet hanger from two perspectives: the positive one – based on childhood memories, in which it served as the center of play and life of the community, and the negative one – referring to the present context of the hanger as an attractive place for the pathologization of life. Metaphorically, the author puts it as two sides of the same thing (sic!), like the two faces of the literary character Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde; she also associates the hanger with the irreversible past of things and the features of former education with lost (departing) childhood.

  • Issue Year: 11/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 165-175
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish