published in: Claudia Lichnofsky, Enriketa Pandelejmoni, Darko Stojanov (Hg.): Myths and Mythical Spaces. Conditions and Challenges for History Textbooks in Albania and South-Eastern Europe, Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2017, pp. 237-247.
Nearly fifteen years ago it was concluded that, generally speaking, history textbooks in the Balkan countires reproduced a one-sided ethnocentric version of the truth, and demonstrated an absence of common heritage and wider European values. Since then, the Republic of Macedonia has made substantial progress in positively recognising multiculturalism and multiethnicity at all levels of society. With regard to education, one of the crucial steps was to identify multiculturalism as a core goal in the national education framework, which provided a basis for changes in all teaching curricula for the first to ninth grade. With this in mind, the goal of this study is to epirically examine whether Macedonian history textbooks are utilized to faciliate students' acceptance of the multiethnic and multicultural nature of the country, or whether they still reflect the same problematic approach as earlier examples.
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