Migrant Voices in the Polish Classroom: Canadian Literature on the Tertiary Level of Education

Abstract

This paper explores the possibilities of introducing contemporary Canadian texts into a Polish university classroom. It contextualizes teaching English language literature in Poland as well as seeks options for promoting values such as openness and tolerance while facilitating global reading and raising students’ awareness on global conflicts and their meaning in the contemporaneous world. The paper aims at demonstrating that Canadian literature courses composed of texts concerned with immigration and multiculturalism turn out to have an enormous potential in creating valuable debates on the problem of embracing otherness, seeking bridges in mutual understanding, and promoting openness towards different identities. On the basis of close readings of three texts, M. Ondaatje’s The English Patient, A.J. Borkowski’s Copernicus Avenue, and E. Stachniak’s Necessary Lies, the present article also demonstrates how Canadian literature enriches and rescales students’ perception of cultural heterogeneity and responsibility of reading, thus offering new perspectives on the rapidly changing world.

Research on the Practical Path of Integrating the Teaching of Modern and Contemporary Literature and Technology in Colleges and Universities in the Information Age

“…Some teachers, therefore, emphasize scientific research rather than teaching, which leads to a decline in the quality of teaching. The second is the marginalization of the status of the Chinese discipline to which Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature belongs [14][15][16][17]. In addition, the comprehensive coverage of the mobile Internet forces teachers to compete with cell phones and computers' "magic" to grab students [18][19].…”