Studies examining the content of textbooks show that textbooks have a major role in peace education, especially during transitional periods between war and peace, in regions of intense conflicts. Studies examining the content of textbooks show that they have the potential to construct social reality for pupils, to impart values, beliefs, norms and ideologies as well as to transfer the chosen social ethos from one generation to another. Textbooks, especially on subjects such as History, Citizenship and Literature, have an important role in creating the national narrative and the collective memory of a society; they deal with the past but, in fact, help to construct future consciousness.
