The project "Germany and the Polish-German relations in contemporary history textbooks", conducted since October 2013, seeks to analyze Polish history textbooks used in school focusing on views expressed therein on Germany and Polish-German relations from the very beginnings to the present. Object of the analysis are curricula and textbooks of two school types, gimnazjium and liceum, as to be found in registers of the Ministry of National Education.
The research team is composed of doctoral candidates and research assistants of the chair of history at CSNE who analyze the content of textbooks focusing on issues selected by themselves, from the origin of the Polish state to current Polish-German relations in the European Union. An important element of the works is the development of a coherent research method that will allow for conducting similar research projects in the future or serve to enable an analogous analysis of German textbooks.
The planned project result is a book to be composed both of general parts, among them those regarding the influence of commemorative policy on the shape of teaching material, critical depictions of textbooks currently used in Polish schools, and of detailed analyses made during the realization of the project by individual members of the research team.
Webseite
http://www.wbz.uni.wroc.pl/en/research/projects/running-projects.html
Country
Poland, Germany
Runtime
2013-2014
Contact for more informations
Prof. Krzysztof Ruchniewicz: ruchniewicz(at)wbz.uni.wroc.pl
Project results
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