History is a Teacher

History Doc - Teachers TV

Memories of conflict are still very fresh in Bosnia, where children grow up learning a very one-sided account of their history. In towns of multiple ethnic groups, schools are divided. In the same building, Croat children are taught in separate classrooms from Muslim children. Schools teach history from different national curriculums, providing differing views of the past. ‘History is a Teacher’ reveals the importance of history in shaping national identity. 

Croat pupils talk about their nationality