1st Edition

Teaching History, Celebrating Nationalism School History Education in Poland

106 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the relationship between history education and nationalism in the context of the dominant structures of collective memory in Poland. Drawing on original qualitative research with history teachers, it explores the ways in which teachers understand the aims of history teaching and how they teach history, with some contesting or negotiating official and hegemonic nationalist... Read more

1. Setting the ground

2. Nationalism, collective memory, education

3. Teaching history, celebrating nationalism

4. Nationalism, but what kind?

5. Whose nation? Whose history?

6. What next for teaching history?

Biography

Krzysztof Jaskułowski is Associate Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland, and the author of The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland: Between Nationalism, Fear and Empathy.

Piotr Majewski is Assistant Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland.

Adrianna Surmiak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology of Morality and General Axiology at the University of Warsaw, Poland.