TEACHER OF EARLY EDUCATION IN THE ROLE OF A TRAPPER-CREATOR OF LIBERATING EDUCATION

• Main Author: Jolanta Maciąg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 2409-9244; 2521-6252; 10.15330/esu.0.124-136
• Keywords: Education; L
• Source: Osvìtnìj Prostìr Ukraïni, Vol 0, Iss 3, Pp 124-136 (2017)

<p>The modern civilization is characterised by a significant degree of development in thefields of science, technology and industry - which leads to numerous transformations in thefunctioning of traditional communities and societies, population migrations and creation ofnew groups and socio-professional layers. Due to the above-mentioned transformations, humaninterpersonal relations are frequently subject to the process of depersonalization, manifesting atendency to objectify people. Observing social changes that have been transpiring in Polandrecently as well as attempts to reform the educational system result in an increased importanceof questions concerning the role played by teachers and tasks they are to perform.According to Aleksander Nalaskowski, "a school is worth only as much as the teacherswho work in it"1. Answering the questions of "Who currently works in Polish schools?" "Whoare our teachers?"- the author comes to the conclusion that we no longer encounter teacherteams at schools but only purely accidental gatherings of teachers. Such arbitrarily composedteacher assemblies do not form a unity, a characteristic group with numerous individual traits2.I consider it worthwhile to focus on the issue of professional awareness and professionalcompetences and qualifications of the teacher of children in the pre-school and early schoolstages (the so-called early education). School functioning is, after all, all the more effective ifthe teachers cooperate with one another, have a better understanding of children's needs andare able to jointly improve their individual styles of work. In this article, I shall make anattempt to present a story of a teacher on a road, a trapper (to use a metaphor), a freeman/hunter in the process of permanent learning of the surrounding world. A reality which is tothe same extent expected and unpredictable as it fluctuates between the known and/versus thediscovered. The postmodern view of the world is characterized by "adventurousindecisiveness" as it is pluralistic, has no definite form - undergoing a cycle of permanentcreation and disintegration. In this very aspect one can find a space for freedom of ateacher/hunter of the liberating education who - through his actions - reconstructs his ownexperiences while the ability to take advantage of the already acquired experience becomesanother essential trait of his self-perfection.</p><p>Key words: liberating teaching, education, dialogue, teacher.</p>