Podręczniki do historii wobec reform szkolnictwa. Problemy doboru treści
The history textbooks in the face of the reform of the education system. The challenges of selecting content

Summary/Abstract: At Polish schools textbooks are an important part of the accoutrements of both students and teachers. More often than not the teachers submit to the content of the textbook. Thus one can observe it being used as an informal curriculum. The fundamental problems of historical education thusly continue to be: the selection, hierarchisation and systematization of the content. It is impossible to teach methodology and research techniques without the background provided by factual information. The criterion for choosing facts should be the continuity of phenomena in modern culture and social reality as well as their presence among the employed codes and the accepted systems of values. The question of the number of terms and phenomena crucial for creating ideas allowing for the understanding of the past constantly returns as a vital problem to be tackled as without resolving it the very usefulness of teaching history becomes dubitable.

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