Słowo o konceptualizacji problemów badawczych w dydaktyce Elżbiety Feliksiak

Abstract

In the late 1970s, Elżbieta Feliksiak (1937–2015), a graduate of Polish and German studies at the University of Warsaw (she also studied physics), became associated with a young university center, functioning as the Bialystok Branch of the University of Warsaw. The center created university structures based on the scientific staff of the UW. Although Professor Feliksiak used to come to Bialystok for classes, she carried out her entire salary at that time only at the UW Branch, and – as it turned out in time – thanks to this full-time form of employment she was able to take a block of classes in Polish and universal literary studies and carry them out in all forms of university didactics, that is, in the form of exercises, conversation classes, seminars and lectures. Her research interests and her teaching practice were closely correlated, focusing on the theory of literature and the poetics of the work, as well as the history of universal literature. For several years, she also incidentally taught exercises in the history of Polish literature of the 19th century. Even when these classes were already taught by other lecturers, Feliksiak, as an interpreter practicing hermeneutics, did not part with the canon of Romantic or Post-Romantic literature. In particular, her Norwid studies are well-known and appreciated. In addition to her native literature, she specialized in two other European literatures, that is, the writings of the German language area and French (and Francophone) literature, and it should be emphasized that as a researcher she did not limit herself to the ‘primary’ literatures, the literatures of central Europe, which shaped for centuries the model of European culture, and with it its axiological-aesthetic paradigm. Other European literatures – including Belarusian – also served Feliksiak as a context.