Pedagogy of the Public Intellectual on the Example of Life and Work of Gordon Matthew Sumner (Sting)

Abstract

G.M. Sumner (Sting) is a teacher and pedagogue by education. After a short period of schoolwork, he began a career as a professional musician. As a musician with pedagogical education (from the second half of the 1970s to the present day), he achieved significant successes in the artistic field, functioning not only in the real world but also in the digital world, thanks to the mediatized everyday life, currently existing in many different social media. We believe that Sting is a Public Intellectual not least because of the message his songs convey, but also because of his charity work and involvement in the social issues of the modern world. On the example of a few selected texts of his songs and his activities outside of music, we reconstructed his pedagogy, which has its roots in recognizing the importance of the relationship between man and nature.