In Eastern Europe, countries faced with competing nationalisms encounter distinct challenges in history education, especially when communities strive to impart alternative narratives of history to their children. However, the question of history education also divides Western societies. In our panel discussion, Stuart Waiton, director of the Scottish Union for Education, and Attila Gábor Hunyadi, university teacher at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Babeș-Bolyai University, will seek answers to whether it is worthwhile to teach history in public education at all, and if so, how to do it in the right way.

Dr Stuart Waiton is senior lecturer in sociology and criminology, an author, journalist and campaigner for academic freedom. He is the chairperson of the Scottish Union for Education, a union for parents and teachers opposed to the indoctrination taking place in Scottish schools. His research interests include the politics of antisocial behaviour, the changing nature of politics beyond left and right and the construction of ‘hate crime’. He is  the author of Scared of the Kids, and The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics. His most recent book is Snobs’ Law: Criminalising Football Fans in an Age of Intolerance.

Moderator: Dr Attila Gábor Hunyadi, historian, associate professor at Babeş-Bolyai University.

The event is part of the MCC Budapest Summit on Education.

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