The Poet at the Teacher's Desk: W.H. Auden on Education, Democracy and Humanity

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2017-0002" target="_blank" >10.1515/pjes-2017-0002</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Poet at the Teacher's Desk: W.H. Auden on Education, Democracy and Humanity
Original language description
In the 1930s W.H. Auden taught at several public schools in Britain while simultaneously embarking on his poetic career. Later in life, he lectured at various educational institutions and returned to Oxford, his alma mater, in the 1950s as Oxford Professor of Poetry. His experience of teaching allowed Auden to reflect upon the pitfalls of Britain’s interwar educational system and its social function. Therefore, this article diverts attention from the prevailing scholarly focus on Auden’s poetry to his critical prose in order to examine the poet’s concerns about the content, purpose and role of education in society, his views on the structure of the educational system and disquiet about the tension between the utilitarian and humanistic dimensions of the educational process. At a more general level, the paper points out the relation that Auden maintained existed between education, democracy, humanity, art and the “crystallizing” power of poetry.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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