Why does teaching and learning history in school appear to be so boring, frightening or at least useless for most people? Why is
history so distant to the vivid past anyone can find almost anywhere else except school? These are not rhetorical questions, as
they touch the core of history education. The discrepancies between public discourse and personal expectations of the students
are inevitable. Apart from that, normative texts bear a large responsability for the failures of history teaching, ignoring the gaps
between the resources, the goals, and actual requirements