The Myth of Krypho Scholeio [“Secret School”] in Greece. Issues of Historical Understanding and Historical Culture

This is an analysis of fifty questionnaires given to first-year students of the Department of Primary Education of the University of Ioannina, on the subject of the ’Secret School’ (Krypho Scholeio), and focuses on issues of epistemology and historical culture (Grever & Adriaansen, 2017; Stathis, 2004). The research is supported by previous empirical research regarding the evaluation of conflicting historical narratives by pupils and students (Afandi & Baildon, 2015; Chapman, 2016). The findings favor the actual existence of the ’secret’ school while students/participants, when asked how they interpret the existence of different views on this issue, referred more to the existence of “bias” in relation to the past, and to a lesser extent, to different “perspectives”, representing different groups and interests, either in the past or the present.

Abstract licence: CC BY-SA

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