Nationhood and Politicization of History in School Textbooks

Explores how school history textbooks can be used to further nationalistic aims within divided regions Analyses a wide range of case studies from across the ex-Yugoslav successor states Examines how textbooks can capture and further existing hostilities between ethnic groups

Autorentext

Gorana **Ognjenovi** is Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Jasna **Jozeli** is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Norway.

Inhalt
Foreword: Sarajevo in the twentieth century, or, the manufacture of European history; Anne Madelain.- Chapter 1. Nationhood and the politicization of history in school textbooks; Gorana Ognjenovi and Jasna Jozeli.- Chapter 2. The ideologization of history education and textbooks in Slovenia (Yugoslavia) during socialism, 1945-1990; Mateja Reek.- Chapter 3. Ideological changes in the history textbooks of Montenegro; Saa Kneevi and Neboja agorovi.- Chapter 4. Kosova under Yugoslavia (1945-1999) in the history textbooks of Kosova and Serbia; Shkëlzen Gashi.- Chapter 5. History, identity and curricula: Public debates and controversies over the proposal for a new history curriculum in Croatia; Snjeana Koren.- Chapter 6. Phantoms of Neverland: The tale of three+ history textbooks; Gorana Ognjenovi.- Chapter 7. Where and how do pupils in Serbia learn about the 1990s Yugoslav wars?; Marko uica, Ana Radakovi, and Slobodan Rudi.- Chapter 8. To believe or not to believe: Current history textbooks in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Goran imi.- Chapter 9. The most golden age: A discourse analysis of representations of medieval Bosnia in secondary school history textbooks in the Federation of BiH; Sead S. Fetahagi.- Chapter 10. Teaching history with an ethno-nationalistic approach: History textbooks in the education system of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Jasna Jozeli.- Chapter 11. The myth of victimization in Macedonian history textbooks (1991-2018); Darko Leitner Stojanov and Petar Stojanov.- Chapter 12. Southeast Europe in history textbooks: A variety of selective perceptions; Zrinka timac.- Chapter 13. Afterword; Sabine Rutar.