Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories in International Contexts
A Critical Sociocultural Approach
Published on 7. August 2017
278 pages
978-1-351-78848-9 (ISBN)
Description
Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Defined as representations of past violence and oppression, difficult histories are contested and can evoke emotional, often painful, responses in the present. Teaching and learning these histories is contentious yet necessary for increased dialogue within conflict-ridden societies, reconciliation in post-conflict societies, and greater social cohesion in long-standing democratic nations. Focusing on locations and populations across the globe, chapter authors investigate how key themes-including culture, identity, collective memory, emotion, and multi-perspectivity, historical consciousness, distance, and amnesia-inform the teaching and learning of difficult histories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
15 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white
File size
2,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-78848-9 (9781351788489)
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Terrie Epstein | Carla Peck
Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories in International Contexts
A Critical Sociocultural Approach
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Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories in International Contexts
A Critical Sociocultural Approach
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Persons
Terrie Epstein is Professor of Education at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.
Carla L. Peck is Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Carla L. Peck is Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Content
Introduction: Terrie Epstein and Carla L. Peck
Section 1 Re-presentations of Difficult Histories
Chapter 1: Sustainable History Lessons for Post-Conflict Society Sirkka Ahonen
Chapter 2: Teaching the War: Reflections on Popular Uses of Difficult Heritage Maria Grever
Chapter 3: "Argue the contrary for the purpose of getting a PhD": Revisionist historians, the
Singapore government and the Operation Coldstore controversy LOH Kah Seng
Chapter 4: The State and the Volving of Teaching about Apartheid in School History in South Africa, Circa 1994-2016 Johan Wasserman
Commentary: Peter Seixas
Section 2 Teaching and Learning Indigenous Histories
Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning difficult histories: Australia Anna Clark
Chapter 6: Pedagogies of Forgetting: Colonial Encounters and Nationhood at New Zealand's National Museum Joanna Kidman
Chapter 7: 'People are still grieving': Maori and non-Maori adolescent's perceptions of the Treaty of Waitangi Mark Sheehan, Terrie Epstein, Michael Harcourt
Chapter 8: "That's Not My History": The Reconceptualization of Canadian History Education in Nova Scotia Schools Jennifer Tinkham
Commentary: Sirkka Ahonen
Section 3 Teachers and Teaching Difficult Histories
Chapter 9: "On whose side are you?": Difficult histories in the Israeli context Tsafrir Goldberg
Chapter 10: Teaching History and Educating for Citizenship: Allies or 'uneasy bedfellows' in a post-conflict context? Alan McCully
Chapter 11: Teacher Understandings of Political Violence Represented in National Histories: The Trail of Tears Narrative Alan Stoskopf and Angela Bermudez
Chapter 12: Teacher Resistance Towards Difficult Histories: The Centrality of Affect in Disrupting Teacher Learning Michalinos Zembylas
Commentary: Maria Grever
Section 4 History and Identity
Chapter 13: Physical and Symbolic Violence Imposed: The Difficult Histories of Lesbian, Gay, and Trans-People J.B. Mayo, Jr.
Chapter 14: Learning the "burdening history": Challenges for History Education in Brazil Maria Auxiliadora Schmidt
Chapter 15: Intersections of Students' Ethnic Identifications and Understandings of History Carla L. Peck
Commentary: Terrie Epstein
Section 1 Re-presentations of Difficult Histories
Chapter 1: Sustainable History Lessons for Post-Conflict Society Sirkka Ahonen
Chapter 2: Teaching the War: Reflections on Popular Uses of Difficult Heritage Maria Grever
Chapter 3: "Argue the contrary for the purpose of getting a PhD": Revisionist historians, the
Singapore government and the Operation Coldstore controversy LOH Kah Seng
Chapter 4: The State and the Volving of Teaching about Apartheid in School History in South Africa, Circa 1994-2016 Johan Wasserman
Commentary: Peter Seixas
Section 2 Teaching and Learning Indigenous Histories
Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning difficult histories: Australia Anna Clark
Chapter 6: Pedagogies of Forgetting: Colonial Encounters and Nationhood at New Zealand's National Museum Joanna Kidman
Chapter 7: 'People are still grieving': Maori and non-Maori adolescent's perceptions of the Treaty of Waitangi Mark Sheehan, Terrie Epstein, Michael Harcourt
Chapter 8: "That's Not My History": The Reconceptualization of Canadian History Education in Nova Scotia Schools Jennifer Tinkham
Commentary: Sirkka Ahonen
Section 3 Teachers and Teaching Difficult Histories
Chapter 9: "On whose side are you?": Difficult histories in the Israeli context Tsafrir Goldberg
Chapter 10: Teaching History and Educating for Citizenship: Allies or 'uneasy bedfellows' in a post-conflict context? Alan McCully
Chapter 11: Teacher Understandings of Political Violence Represented in National Histories: The Trail of Tears Narrative Alan Stoskopf and Angela Bermudez
Chapter 12: Teacher Resistance Towards Difficult Histories: The Centrality of Affect in Disrupting Teacher Learning Michalinos Zembylas
Commentary: Maria Grever
Section 4 History and Identity
Chapter 13: Physical and Symbolic Violence Imposed: The Difficult Histories of Lesbian, Gay, and Trans-People J.B. Mayo, Jr.
Chapter 14: Learning the "burdening history": Challenges for History Education in Brazil Maria Auxiliadora Schmidt
Chapter 15: Intersections of Students' Ethnic Identifications and Understandings of History Carla L. Peck
Commentary: Terrie Epstein
