A burden for schoolchildren or a classic that you can't live without? What's wrong with the Ukrai...
The school year has already begun, which means that students will once again have to memorize Shevchenko's "The Testament" and cry over the bitter fate of Fedko the Halamidnik and Klymko? Some say that "sad" literature is a burden for schoolchildren, while others say that it is a Ukrainian classic and a base.
In the new episode of Kulturymo, Valeria Pavlenko figures out what is wrong with the school curriculum of Ukrainian literature and how it should be changed? For more information, watch the video.
Also in this episode are fragments of interviews with Oksana Zabuzhko and Rostyslav Semkiv, which we recorded for the project “Farewell, Empire!” – • Українська література СІЛЬСЬКА? (ні)| Забу...
Guest of the episode is a teacher of Ukrainian literature at Kyiv gymnasium No. 154 Yuriy Telets, whom you can see on TikTok under the pseudonym Yuriy Peony / yupeony
00:00 – Beginning
00:18 – Why students don’t like to read
01:15 – Stereotype: Ukrainian literature = suffering
03:01 – Does the program train philologists?
03:19 – Reform of the National School of Arts: New Approaches
04:12 – Thematic Principle and Works for Teenagers
05:14 – Problems of the Thematic Approach
06:00 – Excessive Concentration of Tragic Plots
06:55 – Who Makes the Program?
07:54 – Why is the expertise of child psychologists needed
08:36 – How students react to suffering literature
09:27 – The image of the victim in Ukrainian literature
10:02 – Time for diversity: urbanism, avant-garde, humor
10:40 – How parents can influence the program
11:22 – Literature as a set of facts for the test
12:12 – Oksana Zabuzhko on deep reading
13:03 – Reading culture as protection against fakes
13:20 – Quality is more important than quantity: less, but deeper
13:37 – Biographies of writers: how to make them alive
14:00 – Examples of Marko Vovchok and George Sand
14:36 – Biography as a fight against the inertia of history
15:01 – A lesson as a book club
16:10 – How to implement a book club in program
16:33 – Teacher’s personality as a key to change
17:04 – Creative tasks: social media, TikTok, anime
18:01 – Students change their view of characters
18:19 – Is literature needed in NMT?
19:15 – Examples of different readings of works
19:44 – Literature as a quest: guess what the author meant
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