The Cold War and the Polish Question
Journal: Palgrave studies in educational media
Year: 2019

Abstract 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-p