How to creatively approach history teaching

Auxiliary teaching material “How to creatively approach history teaching” contains written preparations for teachers, students in the teaching of teaching units with topics:
“Faces of Resistance” and “Suppression of History and Remembrance” by Goran Đurđević in Documenta – Center for dealing with the past.

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Language: Croatian

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“Crime Without Punishment – the Suffering of Serbs in the Middle Podrinje”

A documentary about the suffering of Serbs during the war in the Bosnian territory of the municipalities of Bratunac, Skelani, Milici, Kalesija and Zvornik. In the film, witnesses report the loss of civilians and soldiers during 1993. For some of these crimes, Naser Oric was charged with the BiH Court. The film deals with individual stories and war crimes cases.

The author of the film is Slađana Zarić. The film was produced by RTS.

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Language: Serbian

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War in Mostar

Documentary produced by the British BBC. British journalists documented daily life in the eastern part of Mostar. The film is a set of testimonies about the war days by Mostar Bosniaks, under continuous shelling, by their neighbors Croats.

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Language: Bosnian, Croatian, English

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ICTY: Kosovo case 1998-1999.

An interactive narrative shows how the crimes committed in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 were investigated, reconstructed and prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Each narrative segment consists of an introductory part, a video record and a list of documents, and the selection of evidence, with documents, videos, and photographs.

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Language: Serbian, English, Albanian

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The Depth Two

“The Depth Two” is a documentary about the mass grave discovered in Batajnica in 2001, in which bodies of Kosovo Albanians, civilians killed during the war in Kosovo, were found. The film is a combination of testimonials and photographs of places where these crimes took place 17 years ago. The author and director of this film is Ognjen Glavonic. The film was produced by Non-Aligned Films in 2016.

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Language: Serbian

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15 minutes – Massacre in Dvor

Documentary “15 Minutes – Massacre in Dvor” (58: 39, 2015) directed by Georg Larsen, Kasper Vedsmand and the production Final Cut for Real (Denmark) Nukleus Film (Croatia) is about the crime that took place in the elementary school building on 8. August 1995, when a group of unidentified persons killed nine people with disabilities, Serbs and Croats, just a few meters from the camp of the Danish army at UN forces in Dvor na Uni, Croatia.

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Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, English, Danish

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Textbooks of History in Post-Conflict Societies: Education for Reconciliation?

Title: V Transitional Justice Forum: History Textbooks in Post-Conflict Societies: Education for Reconciliation?, Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade 2015.

Editor: Marijana Toma
Authors: Augusta Dimou, Peter Gauci, Ivan Jovanovic, Vera Kac, Snjezana Koren, Dubravka Stojanovic.

The publication deals with the issue of the role of education in the processes of dealing with the past and reconciliation, with a special emphasis on the content of history textbooks in post-conflict societies and democratization processes. The Handbook contributes to a public debate about how the topics from the nearest past are dealt with in history textbooks.

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Language: Serbian

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Untold history, anti-war campaign 1991-1991

The book was published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Antiwar Campaign of Croatia. The aim of the publication is to map the history of antiwar women’s civil society initiatives during the 1990s wars in Croatia. The book is structured as a cross section of factography, personal memories and documentary material.

Title: Untold history, anti-war campaign 1991.-2011, Zagreb 2011.
Editors: Vesna Jankovic and Nikola Mokrovic
Publisher: Documenta – Center for dealing with the past, Antiwar campaign

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Language: Croatian

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One history, several histories

The publication “Annex to the Textbooks for the Newest History” was published by Documenta (2008) – The Center for Dealing with the Past and the European Movement Split. Authors: Snježana Koren, Magdalena Najbar-Agičić, Tvrtko Jakovina.

An addendum to the textbooks with chronicle contains an auxiliary teaching material (handbook) for the teaching of history based on a multiperspectival approach to history teaching. The teaching material contains the original material, visual content, charts, maps and other content for the period from 1989 to the time of publication.

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Language: Croatian

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