Searching for the Language of Didactic Differences (Review of the book by Dorotа KlusStańskа “Paradigms of didactics. Thinking theoretically about practice”)

Abstract

The article is a response to Professor Dorotа Klus-Stańskа’s scholarly-methodological book published in Poland. It deals with the analysis of the current didactic situation in the East-European region in the recent decades of the 21st century. The author has presented this situation as a diversified field of various didactic discourses, in which students’ orientation is considered as a priority pedagogical objective. The review points out the problems that are in place in the practice of written academic text, which is supposed to expose educational designs of diverse quality, as well as didactic inventions by the author experimenting in the field of designing academic texts for higher school. This article identifies the specifics of the author’s textual techniques, such as contextualization of the languages described, their linguistic deconstruction, and inter-textual exposition of didactic narratives.

Keywords

• linear space of book text
• textual programming
• theoretical neutralization
• social homogenization
• discursive design of reproduction
• narrative realism
• narrative idealism
• linguistic mediation