VEĽKOMORAVSKÁ TEMATIKA A JEJ VPLYV NA FORMOVANIE HISTORICKÉHO VEDOMIA ŠTUDENTOV VEĽKOREVÚCKEHO GYMNÁZIA

The study focuses on the importance of teaching history at the first Slovak Evangelical Grammar School in Veľká Revúca. It analyses how its teachers, often active in national and political affairs, used history teaching to strengthen Slovak national consciousness. The study underlines that history education contributed to the formation of historical consciousness as well as national awareness. One of the fundamental aims of history education is to develop one’s own knowledge of the past, which each individual possesses to varying degrees. Special emphasis was placed on the topic of Great Moravia, which was presented as a successful period of Slovak history before the arrival of the Hungarians, emphasizing the antiquity of the Slovak nation and its right to self-determination within the multi-ethnic Habsburg Empire. The study shows how history education contributes to the formation of historical consciousness and national identity and how the goals of the Slovak national movement were fulfilled by the teachers of the Revúca Grammar School also through the teaching of Slovak history.