Historical Education in the Process of Democratic Transition: The Czech Case Cover Image

Nastava iz istorije u procesu demokratske tranzicije: češki primer
Historical Education in the Process of Democratic Transition: The Czech Case

Author(s): Jaroslav Najbert
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: history didactics; dealing with the past; cultural memory; communicative memory; cultural trauma; democratic transition; Central Europe; school education; historical consciousness

Summary/Abstract: In his article the author focuses on the process of dealing with the past using the example of Czech democratic transition after 1989. First he defines the very concept “dealing with the past” in order to define the role of historiography and school education in a symbolic level of such a process. He deals with three basic problems - cultivation of historical consciousness within school environment, implementation of modern didactical concepts and finally using the Czech experience with post-communist historical education he outlines problematic issues surrounding the process of dealing with the past. Besides other things he concentrates on didactic aspects of the concept of cultural and communicative memory.

  • Issue Year: 23/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 45-55
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English