%0 Journal Article
%T Return to the Secret Garden. On the Need of Escaping the School Desk
%A Starnawska, Karolina
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.19.048.11967
%N Volume 16 Issue 4
%P 541-554
%K school, required reading, nature, play, Richard Louv, Frances Hodgson Burnett
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/wrocic-do-tajemniczego-ogrodu-o-potrzebie-wyjscia-ze-szkolnej-lawki
%X The 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.