Textbooks as Propaganda: Poland Under Communist Rule, 1944-1989

ISBN-13: 9780367667573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Joanna Wojdon

Opis

Textbooks as Propaganda analyses post-Second World War Polish school textbooks to show that Communist indoctrination started right from the first grade. The book positions school textbooks and propaganda in the broader context of a changing political system, posing questions about the effectiveness of the regime’s educational policies.

Spis treści

List of figures

Introduction

1. Primary school curricula in Poland: 1944-1989

2. Primary School Textbook Propaganda: Central Themes

3. Maths and Sciences

3.1. Mathematics

3.2 Science

3.3 Physics

3.4. Chemistry

3.5. Biology

4. Geography

5. Polish Language Instruction

6. History

7. Foreign Languages and the Arts

7.1. Russian Language Instruction

7.2. French, English and German

7.3 Art

7.4. Music

7.5. Other Subjects

8. Civic and Defense Education

8.1. Civic education

8.2. Defense training

9. Conclusion: Primary School Textbooks, Propaganda and the Totalitarian State

Index

　

O autorze

Joanna Wojdon is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her publications include White and Red Umbrella: Polish American Congress in the Cold War Era (1944-1988) (2015); The World of Reading Primers: The Image of Reality in the Reading Instruction Textbooks of the Soviet Bloc (in Polish: Świat elementarzy: Obraz rzeczywistości w podręcznikach do nauki czytania w krajach bloku radzieckiego) (2015); and E-teaching History (2016, ed.). She is the managing editor of the International Journal of Research on History Didactics, History Education and History Culture: Yearbook of the International Society for History Didactics (vol. 33–37: 2013–2016).