published in Eckert. Die Schriftenreihe Studien des Georg-Eckert-Instituts zur internationalen Bildungsmedienforschung, Vol. 141, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen, 2016, pp.111-124
This chapter addresses the complex interethnic relationship between ethnic Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia as reflected in changes to the country’s history textbooks since 2001. That year, the sevenmonth armed conflict between government forces and the National Liberation Army, NLA (UÇK),1 came to an end, followed by the signing in Ohrid of a framework agreement granting more rights to the Albanians and other ethnic groups living in the country. During the ensuing years, the Macedonian Parliament drafted a set of laws that guaranteed, for all ethnic groups living in the country, freedom from discrimination, equitable representation, use of their own language in education and administration, and other rights. Although the agreement did not explicitly mention the question of history education, it still had important implications for how history should be taught. In 2004, the Ministry of Education directed the Bureau for the Development of Education to develop new curricula for history education, and Macedonia’s first post-conflict textbooks appeared in 2005 and 2006.
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