Mario Carretero & Stefan Berger Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education

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This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. The editors provide a comprehensive overview through thirty-eight chapters divided into four parts: a) Historical Culture and Public Uses of History; b) The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of Postcolonial Societies; c) Reflections on History Learning and Teaching; d) Educational Resources: Curricula, Textbooks and New Media. This unique text integrates contributions of researchers from history, education, collective memory, museum studies, heritage, social and cognitive psychology, and other social sciences, stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue. Contributors come from various countries of Northern and Southern America, Europe and Asia, providing an international perspective that does justice to the complexity of this field of study. The Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education provides state-of-the-art research, focussing on how citizens and societies make sense of the past through different ways of representing it.

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Table of Content

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1 Introduction: Historical Cultures and Education in Transition

Mario Carretero, Stefan Berger, Maria Grever

Part I Historical Culture: Conceptualizing the Public Uses of History

2 History Writing and Constructions of National Space – The Long Dominance of the National in Modern European Historiographies

Stefan Berger

3 Historical Consciousness and Historical Thinking

Peter Seixas

4 Historical Culture: a Concept Revisited

Maria Grever and Robbert-Jan Adriaansen

5 Historical Rights to Land: How Latin American States Made the Past Normative and What Happened to History and Historical Education as a Result

Tamar Herzog

6 ’The Times They Are a-Changin’. On Time, Space and Periodization in History

Chris Lorenz

7 Democracy and History Museums. Museo de America

Marisa González de Oleaga

8 Illustrating National History

Peter Burke

9 Film, the Past, and a Didactic Dead End: From Teaching History to Teaching Memory

Wulf Kansteiner

10 Historical Edutainment: New Forms and Practices of Popular History?

Barbara Korte and Sylvia Palatschek

11 The Jurassic Park of Historical Culture

Antonis Liakos and Mitsos Bilalis

Part II The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of Postcolonial Societies

12 Teaching National History to Young People Today

Jocelyn Letourneau

13 Echoing National Narratives in English History Textbooks

Tina van der Vlies

14 Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts of History Textbooks

Susan Grindel

15 History in French Secondary School: a Tale of Progress and Universalism or a Narrative of Present Society?

Nicole Tutiaux-Guillon

16 National Narratives and the Invention of Ethnic Identities in Morocco

Norah Karrouche

17 Constructing Identity and Power in History Education in Ukraine: Approaches to Formation of Peace Culture

Karina V. Korostelina

18 Postcolonial Discourses and Teaching National History. The History Educators’ Attempts to Overcome Colonialism in the Republic of Korea

Sunjoo Kang

19 History for Nation-Building: the Case of Greece and Turkey

Herculas Millas

20 Conflicting Narratives about Argentinean ‘Conquest of the Desert’. Social Representations, Cognitive Polyphasia, and Nothingness

Alicia Barreiro, José Antonio Castorina, Floor van Alphen

21 After Empire: the Politics of History Education in a Postcolonial World

Andrew Mycock

Part III Reflections on History Learning and Teaching

22 What to Teach in History Education When the Social Pact Shakes?

Alberto Rosa and Ignacio Bresco

23 The Power of Story: Historical Narratives and the Construction of Civic Identity

Helen Haste and Ángela Bermúdez

24 Shared Principles in History and Social Science Education

Keith Barton

25 Concepts Acquisition and Conceptual Change in History

Maria Rodriguez-Moneo and Cesar Lopez

26 Social Representations Concepts of the Past and Competences in History Education

Dario Páez, Magdalena Bobowik and James Liu

27 Teaching History Master Narratives: Fostering Imagi NATIONS

Mario Carretero

28 Organizing the Past: Historical Accounts, Significance and Unknown Ontologies

Lis Cercadillo, Arthur Chapman and Peter Lee

29 Historical Reading and Writing in Secondary School Classrooms

Jeffrey Nokes

30 Engaging Students in Historical Reasoning: the Need for Dialogic History Education

Carla van Boxtel and Jannet van Drie

Part IV Educational Resources: Trends in Curricula, Textbooks, Museums and New Media

31 Bridging the Gap – Comparing History Curricula in History Teacher Education in Western Countries

Nicola Brauch

32 Cultural Wars and History Textbooks in Democratic Societies

Tony Taylor and Stuart Macintyre

33 Trends and Issues Surrounding the Reading of Historical Texts in the Republic of Korea

Hohwan Yang

34 History Education Reform in Twenty-First Century China

Side Wang, Yueqin Li, Zhongjie Meng and Chencheng Shen

35 Tools in Teaching Recent Past Conflicts. Constructing Textbooks beyond National Borders

Robert Maier

36 Emotional, Moral and Symbolic Imagery of Modern Russian History Textbooks

Tatyana Tsyrlina and Michael Lovorn

37 Educational Websites on the Memory of Slavery in Europe: the Ongoing Challenge of History Teaching

Stephan Klein

38 Social Media, New Technologies and History Education

Terry Haydn and Kees Ribbens

39 The Neverending Story about Heritage and Museums: Four Discursive Models

Mikel Asensio and Elena Pol

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About the author

Mario Carretero is Professor at Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, and Researcher at FLACSO, Argentina. He has carried out an extensive research on history education. His last two books are History Education and the Construction of National Identities (2012) (co-ed.) and Constructing Patriotism (funded by the Guggenheim Foundation) (2011).
Stefan Berger is Director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Foundation Library of the Rhur University-Bochum, Germany. His research interests are modern and contemporary european history, especially of Germany and Britain, comparative labour history, nationalism and history of historiography. He has published The Contested Nation (2011) and Nationalizing the Past (2010).
Maria Grever is Professor of History and Theory and Director of the Center for Historical Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has published widely on canonization processes, historical culture, collective memory and identity, heritage and history education. Currently she leads the research program War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts (2015-2019).

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 856 ● ISBN 9781137529084 ● File size 8.8 MB ● Editor Mario Carretero & Stefan Berger ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5062278 ● Copy protection Social DRM