“I am the mother of dragons”: The educational potential of the song of Ice and fire saga
George R.R. Martin and the series Game of thrones
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Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna, Warszawa
Publication date: 2024-02-20
Edukacja Ustawiczna Dorosłych 2022;119(4)
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Among the numerous functions of popular culture, the educational function has
great potential to be used in various contexts of education and upbringing. The attractiveness
of series, such as, for example, Game of Thrones (based on G.R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and
Fire saga) is not only due to their effective advertising, but also to the way they tell about the
world. At the center of these stories are interesting characters and their complex motives and
personalities. The perception of these stories is accompanied by the recipient’s pleasure, which
affects cognitive processes - attention, memory, motivation to learn. Stories of popular culture
can be an inexhaustible source of inspiration and ideas for the educator. If the essence of
education is to expand the semantic field of students, works of popular culture are a good tool
that enables the implementation of this intention. The aim of the considerations contained in
the article is to answer the question: “To what extent can works of popular culture be used as an
educational space?”. The subject of the analysis are selected heroes of the A Song of Ice and Fire
series and the series entitled Game of Thrones.