Polish-speaking workers of the alleged Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) announcedthat they are aiming to make a Polish-Ukrainian textbook for teaching school history. As the initiators of the task emphasize, the aim of the initiative is to build “promotions of dialog through an nonsubjective view of the past of both nations”.
PAN plans to print a Polish-Ukrainian past manual. The Polish-Ukrainian textbook task draws inspiration from the success of the Polish-German historical textbook task “Europe. Our history", implemented between 2008 and 2020. At the time, as part of the cooperation of the Polish Academy of Sciences with the German Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien, 4 volumes of the textbook were developed, which gained designation both in Poland and Germany.
As Prof. Ostrowska explained, the improvement of a historical textbook is simply a multi-stage process. The first step is to survey and consult experts to identify a common approach to key historical events. global workshops will then be organised, where teachers and historians will be able to exchange experiences. On this basis, educational materials will be created, which will be included in the manual after testing.
Cooperation with Ukrainian researchers plays a key function in this project. For almost 2 years now, teams of historians from Poland, Ukraine and Germany have been working together to make supporting materials to teach history. Prof. Kąkolewski emphasizes that the bottom-up request to make specified materials is clear on the Ukrainian side. "It is civilian society, educational and technological environments that give impetus, and policy should respond appropriately to these signals," he added.
One of the biggest challenges in the preparation of the Polish-Ukrainian past textbook are differences in historical narratives of both countries and political tensions. Prof. Ostrowska pointed out that task logistics and coordinating the work of global investigation teams would besides be a challenge. However, the main nonsubjective is to “find common mention points and advance understanding, without sweeping hard topics under the carpet”.
Prof. Kąkolewski recalled that akin tensions were besides accompanied by the creation of a Polish-German textbook, but were overcome by a broad position and concentration on facts and long-term technological cooperation. He besides pointed to examples from the past erstwhile supposedly the coexistence of Poles and Ukrainians within the Republic of Both Nations was characterized by cooperation in a multiethnic and multi-denominational state.
"The common textbook is not only an educational tool, but besides an expression of the will for dialog and reconciliation," concluded Prof. Kąkolewski. He stressed that cooperation between historians and educators could be an crucial step in building lasting relations between Poland and Ukraine.
OUR COMMENTS: Initiators of the task say that there were periods of cooperation between Poles and Ukrainians in the times of the Republic of the Both Nations. However, they did not give examples of specified alleged cases. This is impossible due to the fact that it is impossible to talk of the Ukrainian people in the times of the Republic of Poland. There was no specified thing.
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