Word in a Transactional Approach to Upbringing through Fairy Tales: The Selected Aspects

Abstract

The word has enormous meaning in a teacher’s practice. Basically, it can be treated as a transmitter of direct and indirect contents that have a positive or negative dimension. The word belongs to elements constituting the phrase, sentence, story, speech, etc. and performs many functions covering varied disciplines of science, one of which is pedagogy. It takes part actively in the process of upbringing that is realized with differentiated methods, techniques. They are rooted in the anthropological, ethical, axiological, and psychological domain and seem to be indispensable in the implementation of content. The results of their usage depend on many factors, perhaps the most important being the teacher’s approach to the choice of methods. The goal of the paper is to elicit the meaning of the word functions while applying a transactional theory to student’s upbringing through fairy tales. Hence, the presentation is to explain the notion of the “word” and then the “transactional theory” of Louise M. Rosenblatt, the “transactional approach” to upbringing, and the interpretation of words in the fairy tales.

Keywords

• słowo
• transakcyjna teoria
• integralne wychowanie
• integralny rozwój
• baśnie
• nauczyciel
• uczeń