A School That Forms? A Look at the Years of the Communist Regime and the Present

• Authors: František Neupauer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Based on personal experience of students and use of archives, the study shows how totalitarian ideology of communist regime influenced students and aimed at socialization of villages - collectivization. Real examples imply various questions in relation to the past and the future: How should teachers influence students nowadays? Should history classes focus on historical facts, or should they form students and their values?

Keywords

EN

historical empathy; communist regime; collectivization; school

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ethnologia Actualis
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 126-136

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-11-26

Contributors

author

František Neupauer

• Nation’s Memory Institute in Bratislava

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eas-2015-0012