@ARTICLE{Zalewska_Ewa_The_2015, author={Zalewska, Ewa}, volume={tom LXVIII}, journal={Studia Pedagogiczne}, pages={221-232}, howpublished={online}, year={2015}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Pedagogicznych PAN i Wydział Pedagogiki i Psychologii Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku}, abstract={The article deals with the issue of the meaning of the Polish early education coursebooks for conservation/change in educational practices. It is the liberal and constructivist discourse to which the coursebook authors should refer (especially in the context of the present time and democracy) if these books are to become a tool of the prodevelopmental and emancipatory interest of both students and society. However, the research on Polish coursebooks for early education (grades I – III), show that this very condition has not been ful3 lled. In such a situation it is the German school coursebooks that might be inspiring because of their discursive background as well as of the methodological proposals and the range of content present in them. The article is also an attempt to reconstruct “the image of school” present in German early education coursebooks. It is possible to name and describe the key dimensions in this image such as: the democratic nature of teacher-student relations, the focus on the activation of students’ personal knowledge as well as on their ethical and cognitive autonomy, realistic vision of the world, trust in students’ competences, and creating the sphere of the nearest development.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={The picture of school in German textbooks for beginner classes: inspirations and challenges for Polish textbook discourse and educational practices}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109695/PDF-MASTER/EWA%20ZALEWSKA%20Studia%20pedagogiczne%202015%20LXVIII-16.pdf}, keywords={schools coursebook, the image of school, power and knowledge in school coursebook}, }