How Do Czech Children Remember Their 'Father'? Visual Representations of the First Czechoslovak President, T. G. Masaryk, in Czech History Textbooks in Communist and Post-communist Times
2017
Abstract
The chapter explores the importance of visual materials in the field of history education and emphasizes the necessity to understand the principles of visual communication, which mediates the past to current school students. The presenter makes an attempt to demonstrate the salient connection between visual and historical literacy in today's Czech society.
Specifically, the paper examines visual representations of the first Czechoslovak president T. G.
Masaryk in seven history textbooks published during communist and post-communist eras in the Czech Republic and identifies the ideological purposes behind this difference.