Śląski Pasek? Uwagi o książce "Z pamiętnika Westfaloka" i jej przydatności w edukacji
Silesian Pasek? Some Remarks on the Book “Z pamiętnika Westfaloka” ("From the Memoirs of Westfalok") and Its Usefulness in Education

Summary/Abstract: A collection of memoirs by Ludwik Hurski published in the spring of 2014 is certainly worth using in didactic work. Thematic diversity of the issues addressed by the author makes the notes penned by a Silesian miner, who lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, useful both to Polish studies teachers as well as to historians. Juxtaposing Hurski’s "Memoirs" with the "Memoirs" by Jan Chryzostom Pasek might bring interesting results. Students in Silesian high schools are therefore given the opportunity do perfect their skills at comparative analyses as well as at using the sources. Moreover, the book makes students familiar with the linguistic variants that have already fallen into oblivion (e.g. winged words, sayings or legends concerning the region). However, the book can be read from yet another perspective — on the one hand, the text is a mixed language code, thus it is not freed from language errors, on the other — it testifies the author’s individual process of acquiring Polish national language by a Silesian whose childhood fell on the period of the "Kulturkampf".

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