Keywords: Polish-Ukrainian language interferences; Kremenets - Krzemieniec
Polemics. Review.
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The article attempts to analyse Balladyna by Juliusz Słowacki in terms of its intertextual references to popular tales by the Brothers Grimm: Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood, and to two Ukrainian folk tales: Daughter and Stepdaughter and How the Emperor Married an Orphan Girl Maryjka. The main aim of this analysis is to discuss the analogies between the genre of tale and that of drama, visible in the structure of particular characters, and to identify the contradictory aesthetic categories which determine the text reception: the comic and the (dominant) tragic. The conclusions are as follows: firstly, Balladyna features a mixture of dramatic and fairy‑tale elements. Secondly, it is a two‑plane text, which can be read as a tale on the one hand, and as an anti‑tale on the other. Thirdly, the dominant aesthetic category here is the tragic. This final conclusion can be related to the question – very important in the Polish culture – whether a Pole has the right to laugh, especially at a time of national bondage, and to the nineteenth century sense of the tragic, which turned this category into a permanent element of the Romantic image of the world.
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Keywords: digital media; educational and media space of a child; media in early school education
In the work, the spaces of functioning of a contemporary child are characterised, and among them the educational and media space. Next, the interactions of a child with digital media – treated as the culture tools – are presented; finally, the effective use of the interactive media in early school education is described.
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Keywords: celebritisation; children; microcelebrity; YouTube
In the last two decades, we have seen dramatic changes in the concept of fame – from a worldwide star, through a celebrity understood as person who is famous for being famous, to the phenomenon of a microcelebrity. Therefore, the aim of this article is to outline changes in celebrity culture occasioned by the dissemination of digital media platforms such YouTube. This video-sharing platform has profoundly changed the celebrity construction as it has disturbed the balance between the ordinary and the private, and thus contributed to the emergence of many microcelebrities. In this paper, the phenomenon of sharing videos on YouTube in which the characters are children is also highlighted.
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Keywords: early childhood education; school of tomorrow; brain-friendly teaching and learning; Polish philology education
Another reform of education forces all the education system employees to learn new ministerial regulations, a new syllabus, changes in terms of the education content, and new books. However, it is worth to consider whether these changes are actual or apparent ones, how to educate teachers of the youngest pupils in the face of continuous reforms in higher education, and from which perspectives to show the priorities of education. This paper is an attempt to both reference the academic knowledge on the functioning of the human brain to the ways of working proposed during classes with the youngest pupils within the framework of the Polish philology education, and prepare teachers to teach in the school of tomorrow. These reflections will be supported by the postulates of neurodidactics, which indicate the need of different learning by children called digital indigenes or digital immigrants, and the theory of five minds by Howard Gardner.
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Keywords: mathematical education; school readiness; early school education
The article is devoted to the study of mathematical education and school readiness of children at the beginning of the first grade. The conducted research focused on searching for dependence between school readiness of a child at the beginning of school learning and their mathematical abilities after the first grade. The study encompassed first-grade students. During the studies the authors undertook an in-depth analysis of documentation concerning the diagnosis of school readiness and conducted a test of mathematical abilities at the end of the first grade. All assumptions made in the article have been set in a suitable theoretical framework which introduces the research problem and enables its interpretation in respect of the present situation of the educational system.
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Keywords: didactics of mathematics; mathematical tasks; problem task
Learning mathematics focuses on task solving. Biggest didactic merits are achieved through solving exercises of a problem type. They develop mathematical thinking, arouse cognitive curiosity, and increase students’ independence. Teaching mathematics with the use of such tasks is an inherent part in the current of the constructivist perspective of education. In the article, the author presents the opinions of the first educational stage teachers on the topic of problem tasks. Moreover, the information concerning the mathematical task solving has been collected, with a special emphasis put on the tasks of the problematic type.
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Keywords: forest kindergarten; preschool education; environmental training; nature deficit disorder; outdoor education
This article refers to the issue of the crisis in the human–nature relationship. Referring to the findings of other authors’ research, it reveals the dangers of alienating the human being from the environment, as well as the positive results of the human being’s contact with nature. It proves there is a need for implementing environmental training as early as in preschool education. The article puts forward the idea and functioning of forest kindergartens in Poland. The empirical material which inspired the reflections presented therein has been gathered during a study visit to “Puszczyk” forest kindergarten in Białystok. The visit included a participant observation and some interviews with a teacher who works with children. In the article, there is also a reference to the survey on the respondents’ opinion on the idea of forest kindergartens.
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Keywords: post-communist literature; intersectional feminism; identity crises; national and sexual minorities; multiculturality in Transylvania;
In Alina Nelega’s novel ca şi cum nimic nu s-ar fi întâmplat [as if nothing had happened], the action takes place in the last decade of the communist dictatorship in Romania. It can be read as an intersectional feminist novel since it presents the institutional oppression from the perspective of sexual and national minorities and marginalized communities, offering a voice to silenced stories and processing an era defined by conflicts and historical changes. This paper discusses the crises experienced and witnessed by the characters both on a personal and a collective level. These crises surge in the first place when the main characters, two lesbian women, struggle to affirm their individual identity. They must face a deep internal conflict because of sexism and (internalized) homophobia, seeking different survival strategies. The whole community is defined by a culture of silence and violence, which provokes cracks in the family models and in the smaller communities. The state’s authority forces uniformization in the name of equality, wherefore multiculturality in Transylvania becomes a mere appearance, hiding the crises in the communication between different groups and the lack of knowledge about other cultures. The state itself faces a crisis, culminating in the 1989 revolution mentioned at the end of the novel – leaving the reader with the doubt if this event, seen as a major historical turning point, has really transgressed the crises, or they are still present in our community. Alina Nelega’s novel creates a subversive discourse, rethinking gender roles and family models, and deconstructing various stereotypes that still influence our personal and public communication.
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Keywords: Media Transformation;Intersemiosis;Chmura, Intersemiotic Translation;Multimodal Texts;Film Adaptations;Performance;Non-Verbal Communication
Professor Alina Kwiatkowska’s untimely departure prevented her from seeing this publication project through to the end. This book is dedicated to her memory and it is only suitable to have the volume summarised in Professor Kwiatkowska’s own words, coming from a draft of the former editor’s introductory chapter:“The present collection of papers was inspired by the international conference on lntersemiotic Translation held at the University of Łódź in 2013. Organized by the Institute of English Studies, it brought together many enthusiastic participants, who gathered to discuss the issues that many traditional scholars would consider to be niche and rather exotic. The volume includes a selection of papers from that conference, complemented by same additional contributions.”
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Keywords: Ancient Glass; George Severeanu;
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Keywords: book review; Alina-Lucia Nemeș;
Le livre ci-présent, paru aux Éditions Presa Universitară Clujeană en 2022, représente une contribution essentielle à l’étude de l’œuvre de l’écrivain français. Ayant comme point de départ le cadre théorique offert par Gaston Bachelard en ce qui concerne les quatre éléments fondamentaux (l’eau, la terre, l’air et le feu), l’auteure se propose d’analyser la symbolique de ces éléments primordiaux présents dans l’œuvre de l‘écrivain français Guillaume Apollinaire. La démarche de l’auteure vise à démontrer la multitude d’interprétations possibles come reflets de l’imaginaire apolinnarien.
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Keywords: Alina Felea; Marriage in Moldova; 17th-19th century;
Review of: la monografiе: Alina Felea. Căsătoria în Țara Moldovei (sec. al XVII-lea – începutul sec. al XIX-lea). Chișinău: Lexon Prim, 2021, 308 p.
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Memoir No. 5: Alina Jeleń, I Started an Avalanche of Help.Facebook Group Called „Kociewie Supports Ukraine”
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Keywords: Alina Streinu; Review; Archaeology;
Review of: Alina Streinu, Vase antice de sticlă din colecția „Maria și George Severeanu”, Muzeul Municipiului București Seria Colecția „Maria și George Severeanu” III, Cetatea de scaun, Târgoviște, 2019,
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Keywords: World War II; child; diary; ghetto; local history; Jadów; memory; Urle; Jews
The following article contains an overview of memoirs written by two sisters – Alina and Henryka from the village of Urle during the World War II and after. We present the content of the memoirs in a wider social and cultural context. We examine the relationship between personal experiences of two young girls, aged 11 and 12 – their self-acceptance, arguments, love of animals and the tragic events of war: the liquidation of the ghetto in Jadów, escaping a rape attempt and the fear of loosing their loved ones. We also examine the local politics of memory in Jadów which marginalises the history of local Jewry.
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Portret wielokrotny dzieła Aliny Szapocznikow (The Multiplied Portrait of Alina Szapocznikow’s Work) by Agata Jakubowska, a renowned feminist researcher, is the first monography of this splendid Polish sculptor who died in France in 1973. The artist, a prisoner of many concentration camps, having survived the Holocaust, turned to art which was filled with joy of life, and the dramatic traces of war experience came back no sooner than she herself became affected with cancer, what caused the ‘Holocaust effect’ according to Jakubowska’s interpretation, which follows Ernst van Alphen. Szapocznikow began her career still in socialist realism, treating it as a very serious challenge. Later she participated actively in post-‘Thaw’ changes in Polish art, eventually she left for France in 1963 and approached the circle of New Realists.Agata Jakubowska has not performed her own archive search, rather basing on the data introduced in a vast catalogue accompanying the retrospective exhibition that toured main Polish national museums in 1998-99. Portret wielokrotny... is read without a break, although it is a book exceptionally sublime in a methodological aspect, based on Griselda Pollock and Jacques Derrida’s ideas. It comes as work-in-progress – struggling with fallocentric discourse excluding women and this-what-is-female in culture; as undoubtedly Jakubowska herself takes part in such revolution in our country. Bringing the idea of a great artist – in its female mutation – back to life, she is convinced that it is socially needed in post-communist Poland and at the same time she plays a sophisticated narrative game with a reader, oscillating between a plain description and statements using first person singular forms, claiming that the book is ‘in a sense’ autobiographical. By positioning the narrator, the author slips away the definite opinions concerning Szapocznikow’s works. Changing her work’s framing, she reveals more of its new aspects. Jakubowska, being a pioneer in Polish conditions, deals with the ways of presenting sculpture undertaken by the artist herself, so she devotes a lot of contents to photos showing her with men-viewers, friends from artistic establishment. Instead of tracing patrilinear influences, Jakubowska comprehends Szapocznikow as a foreigner, a traveller, repeating after Zygmunt Bauman the concept of Jewish ‘transcendental homelessness’. Seen as such, the form grows out of life experience, and appropriating someone else’s form says nothing about its uniqueness, made up for a single life.
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