Wybory czerwcowe 1989 roku we współczesnych podręcznikach do nauczania historii w szkole podstawowej
The Elections of June 1989 in Contemporary History Textbooks for Primary Schools

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyses how the first partially free parliamentary elections held in thePeople’s Republic of Poland on 4 June 1989 are presented in primary school history textbooks today.The June elections were the first ones in Central and Eastern Europe won by the anti-communist oppo-sition. This took place before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Influenced by the ongoing discussions aboutwhether 4 June should be recognized as a national holiday, we decided to investigate how young pe-ople learn about these events. Textbooks are a major research material because they are still the mostwidely used medium in the educational process and often the only source of students’ knowledge ofhistory. We analyzed all textbooks currently approved by the Ministry of National Education for usein schools for grade 8 of primary school.

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