Education concerning Silesian Uprisings and the Plebiscite 1919–1921 as the example of educating on the basis of discourse of parallel messages

Abstract

The text is dedicated to the education concerning Silesian Uprisings and the Plebiscite, it was possible to conduct thanks to the usage of parallel narratives. A few issues are shown in it: the position of uprisings in the contemporary historical education, theoretical considerations over the education from the perspective of microhistory and on the basis of the sources; the description of the new formula of the textbook, that uses, inter alia, large quantity and parallelism of the messages and so called memory nodes, joining history of Upper Silesia with history of Poland. The fundamental part of the article is dedicated to the presentation of the ways in which the issues of Silesian Uprisings and the Plebiscite are approached on the basis of the described determinants.