Published: 2024-12-31

How to Shape the Identity of Young People by Implementing an Educational Project? In the Footsteps of a Lost Long Toed Shoe in Old and Contemporary Krakow

Katarzyna Pławecka
Seminare. Learned Investigations
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1837

Abstract

The publication was subordinated to the issues focused on the proposal to read the works of Antonina Domańska in primary schools. The continuation of research on the significant role of regional Polish education is visible here, demanding an answer to the question - how to help school youth to “take root” in a specific topographic and socio-cultural reality in a multiculturally global world? The potential of the cultural heritage of the region is shown on the example of the novel The yellow long toed shoe [Polish: Historia żółtej ciżemki] by Antonina Domańska, which, based on facts, tells the story of a golden long toed shoe found behind the altar in St. Mary’s Church. The literary image of Krakow is complemented by outstanding historical figures and at the same time role models for contemporary students, i.e.: King Casimir IV Jagiellon surrounded by the royal family, Jan Długosz – the famous chronicler, Szymon of Lipnica – a monk of the Bernardine Order – a future saint, Veit Stoss – a great artist, sculptor of the monumental altar in St. Mary’s Church. The activities described in the project, carried out in the classroom and as part of a Polish language trip around Krakow, constitute a proposal for “reading” Krakow as a particularly valuable place, a symbol of Polishness perpetuated in literature and culture, as also seen by contemporary youth at school and college.

Keywords:

primary school students, college youth, identity, Antonina Domańska, History of the yellow long toed shoe, Krakow, Veit Stoss altar, Polish language, cultural heritage of the region

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Pławecka, K. (2024). How to Shape the Identity of Young People by Implementing an Educational Project? In the Footsteps of a Lost Long Toed Shoe in Old and Contemporary Krakow. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 45(2). https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1837

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