Teaching History and Collective Identities through Political Changes of the First Half of the Twentieth Century

This study is dedicated to the transmission of collective identities and social values in the context of teaching history in elementary and secondary schools on the Slovenian territory which was characterized by the changing of cultural-ideological and state formations. Every political regime acted with great care in order to educate the youth into model citizens. This text is based on an important segment of the collections of the Slovenian School Museum (SŠM) represented by scholastic syllabi, history textbooks and pedagogical periodicals from the late Austro-Hungary, royal and early socialist Yugoslavia. Through all three periods, the integration of Slovenian history into wider frames of collective identities is perceived as a part of the Austrian or Yugoslav ethnic-state communities.