The Influence of the Occupation Authorities on the Reision of Curricula and Textbooks in Occupied Serbia between 1941 and 1944 (A Contribution to Social History of War) Cover Image

Утицај окупационих власти на ревизију наставних програма и уџбеника у Србији 1941–1944 (Прилог друштвеној историји рата)
The Influence of the Occupation Authorities on the Reision of Curricula and Textbooks in Occupied Serbia between 1941 and 1944 (A Contribution to Social History of War)

Author(s): Ljubinka Škodrić
Subject(s): Governance, Political history, Social history, History of Education, State/Government and Education, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: Occuapion of Serbia; occupation authorities; curricula; textbooks; 1941-1944; social history of war; ideology;

Summary/Abstract: The changes in the school textbooks and curricula in occupied Serbia, made by the collaborationist authorities, on one hand were designed to appease the occupation rulers, and on the other hand to alienate the previous political system and to promote and popularize the new policies and ideas. Efforts were made to incorporate the political and ideological aspirations of the collaborationists into the educational contents and enforce a new orientation and ideological upbringing of the population. In this context, the biggest importance was placed on teaching history, geography and language, but due to the sensitivity of topics and difficulties in harmonizing their contents and wishes of collaborationists, new textbooks and teaching of these subjects either did not take root at all or were reduced to inessential contents. The inability to conduct regular classes and a lack of appropriate associates who would create acceptable textbooks made the education authorities resort to provisional measures and enforced and incomplete solutions that remained in force until the end of the occupation.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 172-183
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian