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Marcin Wiatr contributes to the reconstruction, but also to the objectification and advancement of the Polish educational discourse on the reconditioning and adoption of German cultural heritage ongoing since 1989. A central topic of the project is "Upper Silesia" - primarily as the subject of an investigation into the political memory, and secondarily as a show-place for the virulent educational policy trends that were symbolically incorporated into the first-ever history book on regional studies of Upper Silesia. The study aims to provide a reliable basis for the education policy debates in Poland like Germany, but also to understand German cultural heritage as a Europeanisation moment in the history of Upper Silesia. Further, the study proposes ways for successfully classroom teaching of Upper Silesia as a place of remembrance shaped by multiculturalism.

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Wiatr, Marcin
Dr. Marcin Wiatr ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des Georg-Eckert-Instituts in Braunschweig, wo er zu bildungspolitischen Prozessen und Minderheitenfragen in ostmitteleuropäischen Grenzregionen forscht.

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