The comparison between the historical discourse of the textbooks and that of the Internet is not a smooth try. This paper, which is going to focus on the discourse of some web sites referring to Romanian history in comparison with the official high-school textbooks, aims to identify some major problems which my confront a pupil or a young student – also defined as the main target of textbooks, during Internet research. The items to analyse are at least four: a) Target (-groups) of the Internet and textbooks; b) Authors, reasons and their background (if possible to determine); c) Dangers, which may appear during the use of these resources; d) Differences in quantity and quality; Literature: 1. Magarditsch Hatschkijan, Stefan Troebst (Hrsg.), Südosteuropa: Gesellschaft, Politk, Wirtschaft, Kultur. Ein Handbuch, München: C.H.Beck, 1999 2. Wolfgang Höpken (Hrsg.), Öl ins Feuer?/ Oil on Fire? Schulbücher, ethnische Stereotypen und Gewalt in Südosteuropa/ Textbooks, Ethnic Stereotypes and Violence in South-Eastern Europe, Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1996 (= Studien zur internationalen Schulbuchforschung. Schriftenreihe des Georg-Eckert-Instituts, Band 89) 3. Christina Koulouri (ed.), Teaching the History of Southeastern Europe, Thessaloniki, 2001 4. Robert Stradling, Teaching 20th-Century European History, Council of Europe Publishing, 2001 A list of the studied web sites will be available. Bogdan Popa, MA German-Romanian Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bucharest |