Karolina Starnawska
Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (61) , 2024, pp. 497-517
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.24.031.20874Karolina Starnawska
Konteksty Kultury, Volume 16 Issue 4, 2019, pp. 541-554
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.19.048.11967The modern student sits too much, spends too much time in buildings and in front of computer, television, or smartphone screens. School and the duties associated with it consume ever more time, even in case of the youngest students. Students do not have the opportunity to play outside. Meanwhile, as numerous studies show, people require contact with nature for proper development. This paper argues for the need to leave the school premises with students and conduct lessons of the Polish language (or counselling lessons) outside, where students could freely play and explore the nature closest to them. The possibility of conducting such classes was presented on the example of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which is on the supplementary reading list for the fourth through six grades. The author of the article postulates a change in the way we think about children’s learning.