History Education and (Post-)Colonialism: International Case Studies

ISBN-13: 9783631774250 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 360 str.

Susanne Popp; Katja Gorbahn; Susanne Grindel

Opis

This book adds to the ongoing debate about the challenges for history education arising from the centrality of colonialism in shaping the modern world. International studies examine the place of colonialism in the history education of states with different historical experiences based on whether they were colonialists, colonized or none of them.

Spis treści

History education and (post-)colonialism - Discourses on colonialism - Teaching a common colonial past - South Africa's colonial historiography - Perspectives of colonist and colony - Cosmopolitanism - Postcolonial perspectives - Colonial complicity - 'Colonization' discourses - 'Empire' taught in English schools - Postcolonial people's history - Visual representations - The case of Vietnam

O autorze

Susanne Popp is professor of Didactics of History at the University of Augsburg (Germany).

Katja Gorbahn is associate professor of German language, literature, and culture at the Aarhus University (Denmark).

Susanne Grindel is head of the staff unit 'key issues' at the Philipps-University of Mannheim (Germany).