Teaching of history in the Croatian education system Mira Bučanović, prof. Zrinka Racić, prof. eTwinning regional contact seminar Goriška Brda, 2-6 June 2011

The purpose of history as a subject: to contribute to the development of students as independent and responsible people to develop the ability of critical thinking to encourage a positive effect on the society and environment

History in our schools  chronological structure of history teaching  classification on general and national history  modern history teaching is based on social and cultural content more than on the content of political history  teaching methods which are used in studying history

Objectives of teaching history  selecting relevant historical contents  to encourage students to expolre, to analyse historical events, facts, information and people in a critical way and to develop their sense of objectivity

 to teach students mutual tolerance and respect for other cultures and nations

Tasks of teaching history students learn about major events to practice orientation in space and time to learn through different interpretations of the past (documentary films, museum exhibitions, Internet, documents, historical books,...)

Teaching methods: verbal presentation conversation explaining narration reporting reading and working on the text writing

Teaching aids photos maps drawings models documentary and feature films historical books encyclopedias

Curriculum in elementary schools from fifth to eighth grade students in our school learn history from the ancient history to the 21st century to explain the development of human society and human actions, the teaching content is divided in teaching units

Fifth grade 1.What is history? 2.Life of people in the ancient history 3.Civilization of the first letters 4.The rise of Ancient Greece 5.Athenian democracy 6.Hellenism 7.The beginnings of Rome 8.Republic and Empire 9.Croatian area in ancient times 10. The appearance of Christianity 11. Migrations

Sixth grade 1. Europe and the Mediterranean after the migration 2. Feudal Society 3. The rise of Croatia in early middle Ages 4. Europe and the islamic world 5. Rise of Medieval Europe 6. Croatia at the time of Arpad and Anjou 7. Humanism and the Renaissance 8. Age of discovery 9. The Ottoman Empire and Europe to Croatia 10. Reformation and Catholic renewal 11. Europe in the Baroque period 12. Croatia in the early modern period

Seventh grade 1.World and Croatia in the modern age 2.Shaping of modern society 3.Europe since the French Revolution to the Congress of Vienna 4.Croatian national revival and the emergence of modern nation in Europe 5.Revolution 1848th in Croatia and Europe 6.Society, culture and changes in everyday life in the first half of the 19th century

7. Europe at the height of its power 8. Croatia in the Habsburg Monarchy in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century 9. The world in the age of European domination in the 19th century 10. Society, culture and changes in everyday life in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century 11. World Crisis and the First World War

Eight grade 1.Versailles order 2. Democratic processes between the wars 3.Totalitarian regimes between the wars 4. Croatia in the first Yugoslavia 5. Science and culture in the 20th century in Croatia and Europe 6. World War II

7. World during the Cold War and the collapse of the communist system 8. Decolonization of the world 9. Croatia in the second Yugoslavia 10. The origin and development of an independent Croatian state 11. Croatia and the world at the treshold of the third millennium

Thank you for your attention!