Posts by Uffe Andersen
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In Serbia, a textbook case of identity politics
The president’s gift to schoolchildren in a northern city sparks howls of outrage across the border in Croatia.
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Tongues untied
After years of delay, an effort to teach Romani in Serbian schools may be gaining steam.
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Do Serbian pupils know the score?
The country’s students get high marks in class, but poor results on international tests raise doubts about what they’re learning.
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Kosovo’s New Golden Age?
Political ally and major investor Turkey is taking a hand in writing history textbooks, and not all Kosovans are happy about it.
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A First in History
“The pupil who demolishes prejudices through knowledge,” one headline read about the Roma boy with all A’s on his diploma.
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Serbia’s Bosniaks Rediscover Their Roots
NOVI PAZAR | In late February, high school student Ajla Bugaric took the stage in this city of roughly 100,000 to recite “Why Venice Is Sinking,” the poet Abdulah Sidran’s […]
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Ethnic Studies
BUJANOVAC, Serbia | Shpresa thought “very, very hard” about emigrating to the West, even of claiming asylum in Switzerland or Germany, where some of her family and friends live.
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