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Presadzovanie juhoslovanskej identity vo vyučovaní dejepisu v medzivojnovom období
Enforcing the Yugoslav identity in history school education in the middle war period

Author(s): Eva Škorvanková
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Political Sciences, Sociology, Political history, History of Education, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Porta Balkanica, z. s.
Keywords: Yugoslavia; educational policy; history textbooks; Yugoslav identity;

Summary/Abstract: The educational policy of inter-war Yugoslavia attempted to create a united Yugoslav nation via the means of education and textbooks. Education was perceived as means of formation and promotion of national unity in a spirit of state unitarism. The aim the paper is to analyse history education in inter-war Yugoslavia. Namely, I attempt to draw my attention to the analysis of the curricula and the Yugoslav history textbooks which should have materialized a state-promoted goal of both education and educational policy – the establishment of a united Yugoslav identity, by providing their ideological perception of history, either by targeted selection of historiographic materials or the imagined scope of the Yugoslav national story.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 41-57
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Slovak
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