Project description
Examining foreign relations through historical stereotype analysis
The difficult relationship between Hungary and Slovakia, often called the worst between two members of the EU (both joined in 2004), lends itself fittingly to a study on how official school texts from either country reproduce national identity stereotypes in terms of the “us and the other” approach. The history textbooks project will apply critical discourse analysis and social science theories to identify examples of stereotyping from 1918 to the present and see how this is perpetuated. The project will promote awareness of the issue in the educational community through public lectures and articles in both Hungarian and Slovak languages, and provide guidelines for educational policy-making in both countries.
Objective
History textbooks are very important sources of the stories of who we are, where we came from, who are our neighbors, friends, enemies. They bring a rather simplified vision of the past and often adopt historical narratives which incorporate stereotypes about us and the Other. Unfavorable outcomes of public promotion of negative mutual stereotypes through history education have been recognized by both academics and education policy stakeholders, and a number of research initiatives on history textbooks have been conducted. The proposed project will bring a novel approach to analysis of the creation of stereotypes about the Other in history textbooks. This will be achieved by applying critical discourse analysis and using theories on social stereotyping that have been developed in the field of social science – both approaches definitely suitable for the history textbook research, but so far neglected by the academic community. Research on mutual stereotypes produced about the Other in history textbooks published in Slovakia and Hungary since 1918 until today - the countries whose contemporary political relationship has been dubbed the worst bilateral relationship between any two EU members - will serve as a case-study in the proposed project. The main outcome of the project will be a monograph published in English, an article published in Slovak and Hungarian languages and a series of public lectures targeting both the academic community as well as the education policy makers.
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- humanities history and archaeology history
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities racial inequality
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H2020-EU.4. - SPREADING EXCELLENCE AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION
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1053 BUDAPEST
Hungary
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