TEXTBOOK DISCOURSE. BETWEEN TRADITION AND CHANGE: CASUS OF GERMAN TEXTBOOKS FOR FIRST GRADES

Abstract

The school textbook is a tool for creating the identity of young generations. Its traditional formula has depleted its socialization potential. Education is facing new challenges related to the necessity of learning throughout life and the specificity of the media culture society. Polish textbooks for early childhood education have only to a small extent adapted to current social needs and modern didactic concepts. Meanwhile, on the basis of the German textbook discourse, we are dealing with a profound change process in which delegitimization of the authoritarian relationship of power and knowledge plays a key role.