EU history teachers- how difficult would you believe changing the country of focus every 4 years (maintaining for the same class) would be?

Hungarian here.

I feel a not in-significant portion of my country's problems come from how our history is taught and the subsequent irredentist zeal many of our citizens show. It's not uncommon for someone to support Putin in this country in hopes that when he captures Ukraine, he will return regions that Hungary lost during Trianon.

Our history education puts a lot of emphasis on the "injustice of trianon"

One idle muse of a solution I've had was to have history curriculum written by history teachers of another EU country, rotating, so as to minimize both nationalistic and historical rivalry induced biases, while still teaching the country's own history.

Another idle muse I've had was to rotate what country's history within the EU the high school children are taught every 4 years, but student years that already started studying X country will maintain that country as their focus.

I imagine one way it could be done is through digital education through English, which too might help suppress irredentist/nationalistic zeal since the ability to speak English, gained through studying history in English from a foreigner, would liberate the student from only having access to local media and open them to global opinions and views.

Having Hungarian kids study history from romanian/croatian/serb/ukrainian/czech/polish perspective may improve the country's empathy, and steel them against beliefs that violence against our neighbours is justified by historic "injustices."

Post was born of heinous stuff I overheareard during my morning commute.

I've barely slept 5 hours so grammar might be a bit incoherent.

Submitted August 08, 2024 at 12:05AM by Hoihe https://ift.tt/0qeoYP5