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.
Availability: online
Language: Croatian
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.
Availability: online
Language: Serbian
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.
Availability: online
Language: Croatian
A collection of historical sources, organized by a group of historians from the region, called Wars, Divisions, Integrations, covers the period from 1990-2008. Groups of historical sources were presented on topics: Disintegration and construction 1990-1992; Disintegration of Yugoslavia; International actors, local issues; Economy and Society; Culture; Modes of remembrance.
Length: 575 pages
Availability: online
Language: English
The focus of the material is the period immediately preceding the war.
The central position of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the wars that affected the region during the 1990s, the division of plans and programs, as well as the existence of three different, exclusive and often mutually opposing versions of history, pose a particular problem to educators in BiH which deserves special attention.
The central question that the material attempts to answer is how and to what extent is history (ab)used to increase discord within society. To what extent have the citizens “learned” to be afraid and to hate “others” in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Type of material
Workshops – didactically processed, adapted for working with older high school students and working with adults. It contains video material.
Database – consists of five sub-bases that can be used for the efficient processing of topics of use and abuse of history for the purpose of national homogenization and division. In a wider sense, the material is also useful for dealing with all issues from the context of the Yugoslav crisis and the wars of the 1990s. Among other things, it contains books and works in PDF or in some other format, which our researchers have already found on the Internet.
Availability: online
Language: Serbian
Workshops prepared for working with students aged 15+ years. It also includes short films.
The manual is structured as an interactive teaching tool for teachers and professors who work with participants aged 15 to 25, and includes:
Availability: online
Language: Bosnian, Serbian, English
The Kosovo Book of remembrance (2015) is a database of the Humanitarian Law Center and the Humanitarian Law Center for War Crimes in Kosovo (civilians, wounded and prisoners of war), people who were killed during the fighting and people who forcibly disappeared in the period from January 1, 1998 until December 31, 2000 in Kosovo.
Availability: online
Language: Serbian, English, Albanian
News from the past is a product of research conducted by the Belgrade Center for Human Rights within a project funded by the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia. In the realization of the project, extensive public opinion polls were conducted on how citizens see the past (national and general history), themselves and others in it, as well as how prejudices and misinformation affect their judgment and decision-making today. The book contains texts that point to the results of research, people’s misconceptions about some historical events, the role of the media and the elite in the learning of history and the creation of delusions or dilemmas among citizens. Length: 128, [56] p. with tables.
Availability: Novosti iz prošlosti : znanje, neznanje, upotreba i zloupotreba istorije; Beograd 2010.
Language: Serbian
Documentary produced by Teacher tv. The film shows how history shapes national identities and what impact it has on the teaching of history in modern BiH.
Availability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED8hT-mKCoQ
Language: English
