Implications of the Production and Broadcast of Written History in National Education. Historismus versus Historicism

Written history or the history promoted through history textbooks, lectures and historical films or by organizing real ”places of memory” (museums, monuments etc.) are an important source used in the realization of what is still called national education. Although the process of European construction (multidimensional: political, economic, administrative, military and certainly, identity-wise) has added a new identity stake (the European one), national education is still a goal in itself, even if the question of European versus national still persists as a controversial issue. Nevertheless, he implication of history of in the educational process is influenced by the paradigm under which it’s writing and dissemination is approached (historism, historicism), the type of relationship between historical research and political power and, in some cases, it even pertains to the way in which each historian relates to the past from a professional point of view.