The Reality of Digital Teaching of History in Croatia
Miljenko Hajdarović · 2023
The educational system has traditionally been slow to accept innovations and advances in technology used in everyday life. The high penetration of networking, digitalization, and the use of devices is ordinary daily life in the 21st century. They also have a severe impact on the everyday life of schools. Teaching history has not remained immune to the fruits of the IT revolution. In the Croatian framework, several attempts to reform history teaching must be added, rounded off by the School for Life project and pandemic attempts at online and combined teaching in recent years. The use of digital technologies and adapted methods of teaching history in that period went from indignation followed by individual utopian attempts to broader acceptance of the use of ICT. However, what does this wider acceptance mean for teaching history? In qualitative research using the structured interview method, 11 history teachers (advanced in the profession) were interviewed who, in the initial contact, expressed themselves positively towards the use of digital tools. The results point to possible future directions for the education of history teachers and specific strategies for using digital tools.