An interview with Ondřej Hník: “For today´s school, I cannot imagine any-thing other than innovative literary education”

Abstract

In the educational subject Czech Language and Literature, the present concept of literary education continues to be primarily based on the doctrinal approach reduced to literary history and frontal organizational form of teaching. Less class space is given to the use of innovatively conceived literary education: reading texts, especially artistic literature, and creative activity involving the pupils´ construction and re-construction of the texts and their reflection. Contemplating literature teaching in Czech schools is Ondřej Hník, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Czech Studies at the Pedagogical Faculty of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.