Publications
This report is the result of a research study conducted in December 2021. The purpose of the research was to identify the needs of history teachers in the region (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia), to ensure that the resources created by the project met the target group’s needs. The research study took the form of focus groups with 54 participants, all practising history teachers who teach a grade which addresses the recent past in the curriculum, therefore within upper primary or secondary school. To ensure a diversity of perspectives, effort was made to include a geographic balance (participants were recruited from across the country rather than only from the capital), and a variety of levels of former experience with EuroClio.
To cite: Savicka, J., Marić, D., Radaković, A. & Wansink, B.G.J. (2025). Teachers’ Guide for Teaching Sensitive and Controversial Issues in the Post-Yugoslav Space. EuroClio – European Association of History Educators.
This Guide was developed by a team of scholars and practitioners coming from different disciplinary backgrounds, who combined their disciplines (history teaching, psychology, conflict studies, etc.). It aims to offer some practical tools: models, strategies and guidance for teachers who face certain challenges when opening the discussion about difficult aspects of the troubled past and its current uses. In short, this Guide is for “risk-takers” who want to teach about the roots of these controversies, but would still like to mitigate negative reactions within the classroom. The Guide contains a Glossary of the most important concepts and words used, and a Further Reading list. The models, strategies, and guidance in this guide can serve as resources for teachers facilitating lessons about difficult aspects of the recent past, but they can also be used in pre-service and in-service teacher training.
To cite: Savicka, J., Marić, D., Radaković, A. & Wansink, B.G.J. (2025). Teachers’ Guide for Teaching Sensitive and Controversial Issues in the Post-Yugoslav Space. EuroClio – European Association of History Educators.
Montenegro – a missed opportunity for dealing with the past
By Miloš Vukanović and Igor Radulović [This article is also available in Montenegrin further down on this page] The legacy of the wars of the 1990s significantly defines a series of complex internal [...]
Who’s Afraid of History?
[This article is also available in Serbian further down on this page] In the last few years, people in Serbia have been constantly exposed to sensationalistic discoveries of how endangered the Serbian state is; especially [...]
Belgrade Meeting, Learning History that is not yet History II
Belgrade, October 22-24, 2021 - The First Development Meeting Teaching about wars has always been a tough mission. It is even more so in the countries of former Yugoslavia, where the memories of wars [...]