Školska lektira i kulturno pamćenje Sadržaji nacionalne kulture u nastavnim programima za srpski jezik na mlađem osnovnoškolskom uzrastu
Compulsory Reading Lists and Cultural Memory. National Culture Content in the Serbian Language Curricula for the Lower Primary School Grades

Summary/Abstract: Mother tongue is not only the language of communication, but also the guardian of traditionand culture. It preserves all earlier linguistic periods and an overall cultural memory ofa nation. For this reason, the school subject of the Serbian Language is important for buildingstudents’ national identity and it is indeed the most important school subject in primaryeducation. In the processes of organizing, planning, and teaching, a due attention must begiven to the elements of national culture that are built in the language and, specifically, inliterary works. It is only in this way that literature can fully perform its linguistic, aesthetic,and identity role. This paper looks at the Serbian culture content in the early primary schoolcurricula. Taking the new curricula for the first four grades of primary school as a startingpoint, the authors analyse the objectives, outcomes, instructions, and the prescribed contentin which different layers of Serbian culture are incorporated. The goal of the research is toexamine the representation, effects, and a creative impact of culture in the Serbian Languageand the literary texts included in the compulsory reading lists. The paper analyses the worksbelonging to national and contemporary literature, as well as to different genres (epic nationalpoetry, short stories, and contemporary children’s literature). Our conclusion is that theexamined material contains the notes, guidelines, and many contents that in the first cycle ofprimary education draw attention to the diversity and richness of beliefs, ideas, behaviouralpatterns, and spiritual heritage of Serbian (national) culture.

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