Script Latin Cyrillic Latin and Cyrillic TOTAL
Curriculum in Bosnian language 16 0 14 30
Curriculum in Croatian language 20 0 0 20
Curriculum in Serbian language 0 12 6 18
TABLE 4 THE NUMBER OF ANALYSED TEXTBOOKS IN RELATION TO THE USE OF SCRIPT
In the Framework Law on Primary and Secondary Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is listed that the languages of the constituent peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be used at all schools, in concordance with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that all pupils at schools shall learn the alphabets that are in official use in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Article 7). In Article 18 of the Rulebook on the Procedure for Preparing and Publishing Textbooks and Other Teaching Aids for Primary and Secondary Schools (Federal Ministry of Education and Science 2009) it is also stated that school textbooks and other teaching aids can be issued in the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian language and printed equally in scripts (alphabets) which are in official use in Bosnia and Herzegovina. If textbooks, as the basic teaching aid, are written in only one language and script (as it is the case with the analysed textbooks for the curriculum in Croatian), knowing and using other official languages and scripts in regular teaching is made more difficult and/or impossible.
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UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES
The criterion Universal Human Values refers to contents in textbooks which support the adoption and development of basic human values, such as peace, cooperation, liberty, solidarity, responsibility, equality, life and love. The criterion supposes that these contents promote the universality of values and that values are not used to point out the significance, greatness, or the special nature of a single collective which is based on ethnic/national origin, territory, past, language or religion. In curricula10 followed in teaching in primary schools in BH, it is not especially specified what values pupils should develop and adopt when taught geography, history, the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
This way language, which all speakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina use to communicate with one another without any difficulties (because differences in standards are negligible), has turned the education system into a means of political struggle. 10
Framework Curriculum for the Nine-year Primary School in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008), Curriculum for the Nine-year Primary Schools in the Croatian Language in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008), Curriculum for Primary Education in the Republic of Srpska (2014)
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