Het Belgische geschiedenisonderwijs tegenover de uitdaging van de eigentijdse geschiedenis (1945-1961). (Dutch/Flemish)

The article discusses instruction and study of contemporary or "eigentijdse" history in Belgium as an additional academic discipline created in the 1970s, which sought to deal with history since World War I (1914-1918) and the problems this posed for historians. Other topics discussed in the article include the challenges posed by the history of World War II withing the context of the term "eigentids," the Belgian historian Robrecht van Roosbroeck at the Gentse universiteit, and Catholic and public school education from 1945 to 1961.