Pro tempore, No. 20, 2025.
Stručni rad
Comparison of Representations of the Croatian Homeland War in Contemporary Croatian and Serbian High School Textbooks (Summary)
Josip Poljak
Sažetak
The goal of this paper is to analyze the representations of the Croatian Homeland war in contemporary Croatian and Serbian high school textbooks. This paper is not concerned with the accuracy of the stated facts and instead focuses on dealing with the breakup of Yugoslavia as an example of a sensitive and controversial topic. For the purpose of this analysis, this paper explains the rules and methods for working with sensitive and controversial issues as well as most common mistakes. In addition, the paper also analyzes the representation of the conflicting parties and summarizes the textbook narrative, which requires explanations and introduction to imagology and discourse analysis. Historical context of history textbooks is also explained for the purpose of assessing whether Croatian and Serbian textbooks changed their approaches to this topic over time. The subjects of analysis are four Croatian and two Serbian textbooks, all of which were published after 2019. Croatian textbooks were published in 2021, and the Serbian textbooks were published in 2023. The paper tries to answer the question of what strategies and criteria contemporary Croatian and Serbian high school history textbooks follow and what mistakes they make. It also answers the questions about how the textbooks portray the warring sides.
Ključne riječi
textbooks; sensitive and controversial issues; Yugoslavia; Croatian Homeland War; imagology; discourse analysis
Hrčak ID:
349426
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Datum izdavanja:
20.9.2025.
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