“I don't want my child to... ”: Civic Education as an Opportunity for Culture War

Nikola Baketa, PhD and Kosta Bovan, PhD are the authors of the chapter “I don't want my child to... ”: Civic Education as an Opportunity for Culture War”. The chapter is a part of the book Politics of Polarization and Culture War in Croatia of the Library Political Analyses, published by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb.

Chapter "I don't want my child to...": Civic Education as an Opportunity for Culture War by Nikola Baketa and Kosta Bovan discusses the issue of education as an important front in the culture war and how debates on the introduction of civic education into the Croatian educational system have contributed to political polarization. In the first part, the authors explain how political battles over educational content have taken a central place in the broader context of the culture war. The subsequent section elaborates on the development of debates in Croatia regarding the introduction of civic education in the past 30 years. The central part of the paper includes a presentation and analysis of the ideas and ideological content of opponents of civic education in Croatia. This study takes minutes of a public debate from 2016 and online sources from 2021 and 2022 on the topic of introducing interdisciplinary civic education as part of the education reform as its data sources. In conclusion, the authors provide an answer to the question of the extent to which the discourse of opponents of introducing civic education into Croatian schools can be understood as part of a broader culture war.

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