Kronika szkolna — specyficzne narzędzie kształtowania obrazu wojny i żołnierza

The status of the school chronicle as a genre documenting social life may seem dysfunctional from today’s perspective. Nowadays, there are other channels of communication and other means of transferring values, shaping attitudes and setting examples. However, the school chronicle can still be an interesting resource illustrating the contemporary means and tools — actualized in the messages of persuasion and propaganda — which effectively influence the attitudes, ideas, views and decisions of recipients, as well as shape their attitudes and construct personal patterns of parenetic character. The text focuses on the analysis of material from school chronicles which concerns the image of war and that of the soldier.