Julita Pacholczyk

What Kind of Poland?

The Role of the 1999-2015 Education Reform in the Neocolonial Expunging of Polishness and Production of a New EU Subject

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role of Poland's postcommunist national education reforms (1999-2015) in the reproduction of neocolonial relations within Polish society. By focusing on Polish literature education in public high schools in Poland, this study investigates how literary curriculum reform contributes to Poland's neocolonial subjugation through Western, European-Union-centered postmodern hegemonic constructions of nationality/citizenship, fracturing Polish society into an Enlightened colonial elite and Poland's backward internal Orient. It demystifies the postcommunist transformation as neocolonial oppression versus independence, and the current III Republic as a neocommunist construct, which ruptures continuity with the self-governing I and II Republics. In proposing an (anti)colonial view of Polish education and society, past and present, from the 19th century partitions, 20th century Nazism and communism, to present-day EU liberalism, this study inducts Poland/Central Eastern Europe into (anti)colonial discourse. In its call for decolonization, both educational and social, it propounds a modernization scheme based on indigenous Polish traditions versus imported Western models.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9786202814720
• ISBN-10: 6202814721
• Artikelnr.: 60492315

Autorenporträt

Julita Pacholczyk grew up in Poland during the tumultuous time of post-communist transformation/Westernization. Her postimmigrant studies in critical Western academia offer a unique transnational vantage point to critically observe global ideological movements and translate indigenous knowledge concepts and anticolonial thought to the Second World.