Istorija balkanskih zemalja u poljskim školskim udžbenicima za predavanje istorije
The history of the Balkan states in Polish textbooks on history teaching

Summary/Abstract: In general, young people meet history as a science for the first time at school. The school textbook is an original source of any historical information. The historical education in the Polish school system is linear. First, students learn about their own country, then about political, social, economic, and cultural events in western civilizations, to a lesser extent about Eastern and Southern Europe, and very little about the past of other continents. Only students, who decide to take history as a subject of their matriculation examination, broaden their knowledge. In Poland, teachers teach generally about the history of Poland with common events in the background. A lot of interesting historical events in textbooks are only signaled for obvious reasons (volume of books and number of lessons). With reference to the subject of the conference I made a review of the content of information about the history of the Balkan states in the current history textbooks in Poland. It should be noted that there is not much information about the Balkans, however, to some extent, southern Slav peoples and their states are described on the pages of textbooks - from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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