History Wars and The Classroom
Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2012
229 pages
978-1-61735-528-8 (ISBN)
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The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the 'Black Armband' and 'Whitewash' factions in Australia who adopt opposingly celebratory or denigratory views of Australian history, especially when evaluating episodes of poor racial relations. There are also tensions between traditional/patriotic views of history teaching and reformed or 'new' history. There are issues of political control of the curriculum and parallel issues of who writes it (very topical in England at the moment over two expat 'big picture' historians who work at Harvard and Columbia (Niall Ferguson and Simon Schama)).
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Content
- Cover
- Series
- History Wars and the Classroom
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Legacies, Ruptures, and Inertias
- Chapter 2: Under Siege from Right and Left
- Chapter 3: "We Were Allowed to Disagree, Because We Couldn't Agree on Anything"
- Chapter 4: Controversiality and Consciousness
- Chapter 5: Denial in the Classroom
- Chapter 6: "Little Is Taught or Learned in Schools"
- Chapter 7: Transforming Images of Nation-Building
- Chapter 8: Dealing with a Reign of Virtue
- Chapter 9: The History Working Group and Beyond
- Chapter 10: Wars and Rumors of War
- About the Contributors
