This study deals with the Slovak music education curriculum of the ideologically and politically vibrant interwar period of the first Czechoslovak republic (1918–1939). It presents the outcomes of an analysis of primary sources made using grounded theory techniques. The analysis has lead to a conceptualisation of the idea of the nation as it was introduced to Slovaks after the rise of the first Czechoslovak republic. The subsequent qualitative survey shows the percentage of the concepts in music education songbooks and textbooks used in Slovakia in the period 1918–1939. The study examines the possibilities of introducing and applying ideological contents into the process of education through school curricula which are not only a source of implicit social ideas, but may also become a platform for the actions of ideology, a means of embedding an ideological doctrine in the opinions and values of the actors in the educational process.

Nationalism in Europe, 1918–45

School curriculum as a means of shaping national identity: music education in the Slovak region of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period (1918–1939)

The evaluation of the Paris Peace Conference or the “Versailles–Washington world order” is one of the most widely discussed subjects in the study of history and international relations. The abundance of research and assessment is partly down to the formative character of the post-WWI peace on the national consciousness of many states and to the term ‘Versailles’ which has become an oft-recurring keyword in the analysis of international relations. Due to the sheer volume of accounts, a historiography of the Paris Peace Conference is inevitably a collection of the author’s own discretion. This paper focuses on the international historiography of the Paris Peace Conference and its consequences, and argues that after the consolidation of orthodoxies following 1919, and the triumph of revisionist history in the late-1980s, the scholarly community is now experiencing another reappraisal – beginning from the 2010s.

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Nationalism in Europe, 1918–45

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School curriculum as a means of shaping national identity: music education in the Slovak region of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period (1918–1939)

Reassembling a World Order: Toward a New Historiography of the Paris Peace Conference