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2017, No. (10), Anthropology – Folklore – History

Wojciech J. Burszta
Silencing the Past for the Present, Strategies and Techniques of Historical Education in Schools

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Keywords: history, education, narrative, patriotism, nation

Abstract:
The article discusses the coexistence of three types of historical narratives – academic, everyday and educational – that create the basic context for establishing a synthesis of national history in how the recent past is being taught today both in Poland and in other European countries. This specific conglomerate, a mix of different types of narratives that expose the logic of history, that has a common source – mythology. At the same time, it lies at the foundation of the titular problem of "silencing the past" for the needs of contemporary discourses, as well as "historical bulimia", understood as a surplus representation of preferred visions of history that are structured according to a mythically-understood and unconditional initial situation.

About Author:
WOJCIECH JÓZEF BURSZTA - cultural anthropologist, culture scholar, full professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. E-mail: wburszta[at]swps.edu.pl

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