Битка Мирослава Јовановића за „нову историју“
Miroslav Jovanović’s battle for “new history”

(work with students at the Department of History)

Summary/Abstract: Having spent his entire professional life at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, fighting for the “new history”, free from traditional historicism and myths, Miroslav Jovanović realized that one of the key problems of historical science in Serbia originates from the professional education of historians. Therefore, in his pedagogical work, he insisted that students apply a multidisciplinary approach and analyze each topic using a variety of sources, with obligatory contextualization of problems. With his students, he researched 20th century not only through dominant political history, but also through social, cultural, economic history and the history of everyday life, teaching them about French analysts, the new US economic history, British social history of British, German social-historical science and historical anthropology . Although he was passionate fighter against the “fetishism of the sources”, he considered it necessary that students work with different types of sources and learn to use and critically anayze them. Modernizing the teaching of history, aware of the importance of the new technological revolution, he introduced the use of information technologies at the History Department in practical and theoretical sense. By promoting “new history” at the Faculty of Philosophy, in Petnica Science Center, among high school students, and through his books, primarily “The Crisis of History”, Miroslav Jovanović left an indelible mark forming generations of historians who are to change the historical profession in the spirit of the “new history”.

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