CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Budginaite, Irma |
|---|---|
| Title | NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE TEACHING OF HISTORY:THE REFLECTION OF LITHUANIA'S 16TH-18TH CENTURIES COMMONWEALTH WITH POLAND IN LITHUANIAN SCHOOLS |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on how history is taught and learnt in contemporary Lithuania. It is written from the constructivist approach. Lithuanian national history teaching is analyzed dividing it in three periods: the interwar period (Lithuanian independence); 1945-1990 (the Soviet period) and contemporary (post 1990) Lithuania. Data on the first two periods is premised on an analysis of textbooks, while for contemporary Lithuania textbook analysis is complemented by interviews with history teachers and observations in classrooms. This thesis particularly focuses on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth period, which was difficult to fit elegantly in the national history because of its multinational character. Thus it was either dismissed or portrayed negatively in Lithuanian curricula. Witnessing some attempts to revise the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth period in the last decade, it is interesting to analyze if the recent textbooks also include different accounts and if teachers are following the changes. |
| Supervisor | Rabinowitz, Dan; Rajaram, Prem Kumar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/budginaite_irma.pdf |
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