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Textbooks as Propaganda: Poland under Communist Rule, 1944–1989 book cover

1st Edition

Textbooks as Propaganda Poland under Communist Rule, 1944–1989

By Joanna Wojdon Copyright 2018
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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Textbooks as Propaganda analyses post-Second World War Polish school textbooks to show that Communist indoctrination started right from the first grade. This indoctrination intensified as students grew older, but its general themes and major ideas were consistent regardless of the age of the readers and the discipline covered. These textbooks promoted the new, post-war Poland’s boundaries,... Read more

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





　

Biography



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).

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