TEACHING WAR. How Croatian schoolbooks changed and why it matters. – Textbook series – part one
TEACHING WAR. How Croatian schoolbooks changed and why it matters. – Textbook series – part one
Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): School education, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Politics of History/Memory, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: ESI – European Stability Initiative
Summary/Abstract: This report describes how the clash between different approaches to history education has played out in Croatian history textbooks. Until 2000, there was only one nationalist textbook in use, presenting a one-sided image of Croatia’s war history, both in the Second World War and in the conflicts that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia. By 2013, when Croatia acceded to the EU, teachers could choose between four textbooks, which offered a much more nuanced picture. This reflected wider changes in how Croats viewed themselves, how they defined citizenship and how they saw their relationship with their neighbours and their Orthodox Serb minority.
Series: ESI Reports
- Page Count: 37
- Publication Year: 2015
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
