Polska Ludowa w edukacji historycznej
The Polish People’s Republic in historical education

Contributor(s): Maciej Fic (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: The People’s Republic of Poland; historical education
Summary/Abstract: The volume comprises theoretical considerations on historical education about The Polish People’s Republic (1944—1989) both in educational institutions and within the so-called public history, as well as proposals relating to practical solutions in this field. The content of the publication is the result of the collaboration between historians representing various scientific and didactic institutions and museums in the country.The first part of the book presents The Polish People’s Republic through various didactic means: anecdotes, jokes and gags, photography, Polish rock music and posters.The successive texts are so-called case study. With the example of “Tygodnik Powszechny”, the possibilities of using the press as a source of education about the Polish People’s Republic were described; through analysing the activity of the Oral History Archives of The Karta Centre and the History Meeting House in Warsaw, the utilising of oral history in education and research on The Polish People’s Republic was presented. Three of the authors referred to the resources of cinematography: they illustrated the role in the didactic process of a documentary (with the example of Polish Film Chronicle), a comedy (basing on the films by Stanisław Bareja) and a feature film (basing on the image of Death like a slice of bread by Kazimierz Kutz). The theoretical considerations were finished up with a text on the manner the theme of The Polish People’s Republic has been present in historical education in the school reformed after 2017.The last part of the book comprises studies that demonstrate the reader definite proposals for teaching / learning about the Polish People’s Republic. The authors, associated with the institutions they described, used in their sketches the attainments of the Institute of National Remembrance, the Center for the Documentation of the Deportation of Upper Silesians to the USSR in 1945 in Radzionków, the Silesian Centre of Freedom and Solidarity and the House of Polish-German Cooperation in Gliwice and Opole.

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