Wojdon’s chapter approaches the topic of teaching the Cold War to secondary school students in Poland. She analyses and compares four different, widely used Polish textbooks and also observes a ‘typical’ secondary school lesson in order to understand how much scope there is within both mediums for opening up space for alternative interpretations of the Cold War and for the deliberate acknowledgement of different historians’ voices on the subject. She explores how international and non-political as well as national events are covered in the curriculum and why a Western interpretation of the Cold War, an idealised version of the West and a tendency towards classical, positivist reconstructions of the past continue to prevail in Polish classrooms and textbooks.
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Wojdon, J. (2019). The Cold War and the Polish Question. In Palgrave Studies in Educational Media (pp. 183–206). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11999-7_9
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