The conference between freedom of speech and hate speech – media literacy in the education system and society was held on October 16, 2015 at Journalists House, Perkovčeva 2, Zagreb. It is held with the financial support of the fund “Alumni Engagment Innovation ” of the US State Department, the program centers on knowledge of…
Tag: Citizen education
Education is the last hope for democratic political culture
“I’m required to be very well acquainted with the political organization of France in the late 18th century, but as far as the current political situation goes, I still successfully continue with knowing that the Prime Minister is a prime minister, ” said Hrvoje Kožić, a 3rd grade student at 5th gymnasium in Zagreb, explaining…
Confusion and ignorance—a fertile ground for manipulation
During April and May 2015, GOOD Initiative (initiative for systematic and quality introduction of civic education in schools) and Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, with a council of researchers, conducted quantitative research on political literacy of high school graduate students on a national representative sample of 1146 participants. The sample was selected using techniques…
“Let’s learn how to be big” in Split: What you learn as a child, you practice as an adult
“The democratic deficit affects all of us – each February while we are doing our taxes, at every job interview when asked if we are planning a pregnancy soon“, Marko Kovačić pointed out while emphasising that “the results of two of this year’s researches carried out by the GOOD Initiative are worrying – 19.7% of…
No fingers crossed behind back – NO to historic revisionism!
A revisionist relationship to Antifascist history is not only a Croatian problem, although that is no comfort. “Unusual” changes to history are also an issue in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Despite everything, however, there are “resistance movements” that are trying to preserve Antifascism as a pledge from the past to the future – this was…
“When human beings are silent, the inhuman are free to take lives!”
I always welcome invitations to professional conferences. They are always an opportunity to hear and learn something new, to exchange ideas and views with colleagues. The focus of my interest is the study of the Holocaust – a subject that, for some, still belongs to sensitive historic subjects. For me, the further away a conference…