The Fall of Teaching or Imprecise Needs of the Post-Modern Society?

Abstract

The author examines the actions of four Polish language teachers and criticises current claims concerning the need for changes in teachers’ way of working and in teaching itself. On this basis, she argues that the 21^st century is not the beginning of the end of school and teaching, despite the existence of other, alternative forms of educating students. In her conclusion, the author claims that teenagers still need a teacher who will be a wise, kind, aware of his/her role and well-educated leader. Post-modernism no longer evokes anxiety, although it continues to surprise with various changes. Thus, the issue of education at schools may be approached in a calmer manner, with the employment of already created Polish didactics; what is more, foreign patterns should be taken into consideration.