Ulica, uliczka - Przestrzeń publiczna środowiska lokalnego jako społeczne i wychowawcze miejsce znaczące
The Street, the Alley - Public Space of the Local Environment as the Significant Place for Social Life and Upbringing

Summary/Abstract: The street belongs among characteristic forms of urban public space and, as such, it ought to be studied not only by representatives of sociology, philosophy, ethnology, or architecture, but also by pedagogues (among the terms used both by theoreticians and practitioners of upbringing are especially: “the street children”, “a street pedagogue”, and “street pedagogics”). In addition to the results of hermeneutic analysis of interdisciplinary scientific texts, some results of the current empirical studies are presented by the author, who profiles her research in accordance with the following aspects: the function of streets and their names, the meaning and scope of the term “street” and related notions, synonyms, and the significance that young adults – students of pedagogics at the University of Silesia – attach to streets. In her research, the author used the method of individual cases and two techniques: studying personal writing samples (tool: essay-like compositions) and prompting conversation (tool: conversational questions/instructions). The study, conducted in 2018, comprised of 50 university students, most of whom had fond memories of the streets associated with their childhood and youth. The majority of the respondents stated that the streets of their childhood were emotionally meaningful to them and that they had played a significant role in their individual/social development by shaping their character, personality, resourcefulness, creativity, sense of orientation, and the ability to cooperate with others.

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