The thesis deals with the question of the content of nationalistic content in history textbooks that were used in the Republic of Slovenia between 1991 and 2024. The research is mainly based on modernist theories of nationalism, theories of collective memory, and relevant pedagogical content. The central part is a qualitative analysis of the textbook material, which focuses both on explicit and implicit discursive elements as well as on visual representations of national symbols, heroes and important events and on their potential impact on students. The presentation of the findings is divided into individual classes, within which the individual topics that appear the most are presented: e.g. Quarantine, Germans-Slovenes dichotomy, Primož Trubar or the issue of borders. The thesis also monitors changes in the presentation of individual topics over the three decades since Slovenia's independence. Although more modern textbooks are still somewhat nationalistic, the older content is visibly more ideologically marked.
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