A retorika tanítása

Abstract

Teaching rhetoric faces many challenges today. The present study is an initiative and a proposal to refresh the approach of the educational program of rhetoric. As a starting point, it considers rhetoric not as a device system of preparing speeches but as sensitivity and behaviour. Rhetorical education thus focuses not on the creation of a full-fledged text but on developing a communicating personality, the independent ’rhetorical citizen’. The corresponding educational method does not reject the knowledge and use of the classical discipline, on the contrary it aims to show and apply its dynamic capacity. The bottom line of the educational process grabbed and described in three phases is that it considers rhetorical communication a process rather than a product. This integrative perspective enables us to teach rhetoric in the secondary school as a common, creating language and communication activity with more enthusiasm.