Rozhovor Britských listů 594. Konec školského oddělení ÚSTRu. Rada ÚSTRu (a Senát ČR) zlikvidoval důležité odborné pracoviště [Britské listy Interview 594. The end of the Education Department in the Prague-based Institute for the study of totalitarian regimes]

Culik, J. and Najbert, J. (2023) Rozhovor Britských listů 594. Konec školského oddělení ÚSTRu. Rada ÚSTRu (a Senát ČR) zlikvidoval důležité odborné pracoviště [Britské listy Interview 594. The end of the Education Department in the Prague-based Institute for the study of totalitarian regimes]. [Audio]

Abstract

After the head of the Education Department of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR) was dismissed and replaced by a police officer with no historical background, the ÚSTR Education Department staff resigned. In an interview with Jan Čulík, one of those affected, historian and educator Jaroslav Najbert, explains the context. The new leadership of ÚSTR, appointed by the Senate, as well as the new Council of ÚSTR, resented the independent, academic approach of the Education Department to history. The demand was to disseminate ideology. Thus, partly out of dilettantism, partly out of ill will, the members of the Senate and the ÚSTR Council destroyed an important professional department whose task was to create for schools a modern, pluralistic, critical approach to the teaching of history, which was to serve as a model for the Ministry of Education for a similar reform of teaching in other subjects. The Department of Education at ÚSTR is closing after its staff's notice period ends this June. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Náš Region from 9th May, 2023.

• Item Type: Audio
• Keywords: ideology, Czech Republic, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, ÚSTR. education, Czech Parliament, Jaroslav Najbert, Jan Čulík, Britské listy Interviews
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Culik, Dr Jan
• Authors: Culik, J., and Najbert, J.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Slavonic Studies
• Publisher: Britské listy, Regionalnitelevize.cz

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