BEVEZETŐ GONDOLATOK EGY SZILÁGYSÁGI TANÍTÓNŐ ÉLETTÖRTÉNETÉNEK OLVASÁSÁHOZ. PORCSALMINÉ BALLA PIROSKA ÉLETTÖRTÉNETE
PREFACE TO READING THE LIFE STORY OF A TEACHER FROM SĂLAJ. THE LIFE STORY OF PIROSKA PORCSALMINÉ BALLA

Author(s): Katalin Szabó
Subject(s): School education, History of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: self-image; life story; Piroska Porcsalmi; Sălaj County;
Summary/Abstract: In my paper I point out the self-image constructed in the stories, respectively its consolidation. The two versions ─ oral and written ─ of Piroska Porcsalmi's life story, the retired teacher from Sălaj County, as well as her poems, newspaper articles delineate her first generation intellectual possibilities, the difficulties she experienced in the second half of the 20th century, in the time when the ideological power was trying to subordinate the teachers' activities to the establishment of the atheist state. As a consequence of such measures the discrepancy between the educator's initial mentality, the worldview of the village, the medium that sent him/her out, and the official perspective became more and more accentuated. We can become aware of the possibilities of this gap bridging, respectively of the power's reaction from Mrs Porcsalmi's stories, who accepted the roles of the people's educator, and this is what she leaves behind through the different narratives as a legacy.

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