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How Did Agricultural Patterns Change in Serbia after the Fall of Yugoslavia?
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Sibinovic, Mikica – Geography Teacher, 2018
In this lesson plan that takes one class period to complete, high school students explore how political systems influence economic activity by comparing 1991 and 2012 agricultural patterns around the Serbian capital of Belgrade. This lesson provides an insight into the model of transformation of agriculture in Serbia, but a comparison of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lesson Plans, High School Students, Political Influences
Language, Identity and Borders in the Former Serbo-Croatian Area
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Bugarski, Ranko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
This article presents a case study of the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the role of language in constructing collective identities and establishing ethnic boundaries in relation to political borders. After looking at the variable and frequently multiple language-identity links in the South Slavic world, it examines the part that Serbo-Croatian,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role
Teaching Genocide through GIS: A Transformative Approach
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Fitchett, Paul G.; Good, Amy J. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
The utilization of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and geobrowsers (Google Earth) have become increasingly prevalent in the study of genocide. These applications offer teachers and students the opportunity to analyze historical and contemporary genocidal acts from a critical geographic perspective in which the confluence of historical…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Death, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
Contrasting Portraits of War: Youths' Varied Experiences with Political Violence in Bosnia and Palestine
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Barber, Brian K. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
This article illustrates some of the complexity of youths' experience with political violence as a means of cautioning researchers, applied professionals and policy makers against overly-simplistic conclusions and interventions when attempting to understand and serve the large populations of the world's youth who endure conflict. A variety of…
Descriptors: Violence, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Political Influences
Political Peace--Educational War: The Role Played by International Organisations in Negotiating Peace in the Balkans and Its Consequences for Education
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Owen-Jackson, Gwyneth – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2008
The number of countries involved in conflict appears to be growing. Global awareness of these conflicts grows as the increasing use of weblogs and mobile phone videos, alongside traditional technologies, demonstrates the day-to-day effects of conflict on those caught up in it. International organisations are drawn into negotiating "peace…
Descriptors: Conflict, Foreign Countries, International Organizations, Conflict Resolution
U.S. Comparative Education Research on Yugoslav Education in the 1950s and 1960s
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Sobe, Noah W. – European Education, 2007
An examination of American research on Yugoslav education in the 1950s and 1960s shows U.S. comparative education research to have been no less shaped by cold war concerns and modernization theories than other academic disciplines. The purpose of this article is not to specify what research questions should have been asked in the first two decades…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schools, Comparative Education, Educational Research