NOTE : Petition:
On the adverse educational effects of compulsory reading of the Jagiellonian University in the Jagiellonian University cognition Competition
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Announced XXX edition of the Jagiellonian University cognition Competition with a list of readings ]]>https://konkurs.uj.edu.pl/list-lectur]]> and directions that can be chosen by the winners of the competition. The recommended reading, both in the first and second stages of the competition, is the book: Krzysztof Stopka, Andrzej Kazimierz Banach, Julian Dybieć, "The Acts of the Jagiellonian University", Kraków 2000, in which the latest The past of the university is simply scandalous, without communism or martial law. I have been writing about this for years in public space, I have submitted to the authorities of the university and the Polish Academy of Skills.
E.g.
Letter to the Polish Academy of Skills on the withdrawal from the educational circulation of the Jagiellonian University Posted on 5 August, 2009
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Letter opened to the president of the Polish Academy of Skills Posted on November, 2009
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A Mirror of the past of the Jagiellonian University Posted on 25 March, 2009
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Has the Jagiellonian University entered martial law? Posted on 12 December, 2018 ]]>https://blogjw.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/czy-na-territory-university-Jagiellonski-introduction-state-war/ ]]>
Without effect and without support, both from historians and from solidarity or anti-communist communities, which as if it did not interfere with the promotion of the absorption of false past by young people.
The 1 who is silent approves. I'm not silent and I won't allow!.
Who else?
I put petitions at
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which Those who refuse to learn false past can sign
To: Rector of the Jagiellonian University and legislature of the Jagiellonian University
We request immediate verification and withdrawal from the mandatory reading list of the Jagiellonian University cognition competition of the books: Krzysztof Stopka, Andrzej Kazimierz Banach, Julian Dybieć, “The Acts of the Jagiellonian University”, Kraków 2000 until a public and transparent assessment of its compliance with the standards of historical reliability.
The problem is not purely academic. It is of a social and educational nature. The competition rewards the winners with the anticipation of obtaining the Jagiellonian University Index for selected courses of study. This means that young people are rewarded for mastering a certain imagination of university history. If this imagination ignores the fundamental elements of the fresh past of Poland, specified as the reality of communism, the function of the organization apparatus or the experience of martial law, the public institution in practice rewards the reproduction of a selective image of the past.
A profoundly harmful educational situation arises: · young people learn that academic success consists in the uncritical acquisition of authoritative narrative, · an institution that should educate intellectual elites, modeling the attitude of conformism towards incomplete historical transmission, while society laments the mediocre cognition of past by young people, ignoring the fact that they learn what academic authorities consider mandatory.
It is not possible to require a young generation to realize past profoundly if educational selection mechanisms reward the absorption of narratives without the key contexts of the era. The Jagiellonian University, as a publically funded and co-responsible institution for the formation of the elites, bears peculiar work for the standard of historical communication. The university cognition competition cannot become a tool for perpetuating a simplified or smoothed version of the past.
We demand:
1. setting up an independent committee for the public evaluation of publications,
2. to suspend its validity pending completion of the evaluation,
3. open debate on how to teach history
The university should not fear critical reflection on its own past. The authority of discipline is not to silence hard chapters of history, but to consider them bravely. Yours sincerely.
