ABOUT THE BOOK The book is entitled History Wars and 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...
ABOUT THE BOOK The book is entitled History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debat...
Capitalizing on the current movement in history education to nurture a set of shared methodologies and perspectives, this text looks to break down some of the obstacles to transnational understanding in history, focusing on pedagogy to embed democratic principles of inclusion, inquiry, multiple interpretations and freedom of expression.
Four themes which are influencing the broadening of history education to a globalized community of practice run throughout Teaching History and the Changing Nation State . pedagogy, democracy and dialogue . the nation politics and...
Capitalizing on the current movement in history education to nurture a set of shared methodologies and perspectives, this text looks to break down ...
Capitalizing on the current movement in history education to nurture a set of shared methodologies and perspectives, this text looks to break down some of the obstacles to transnational understanding in history, focusing on pedagogy to embed democratic principles of inclusion, enquiry, multiple interpretations and freedom of expression. For countries where internal or external conflicts have featured in recent years, or for countries which have undergone considerable changes in the movement of populations in recent years, access to archival material history education is less likely to...
Capitalizing on the current movement in history education to nurture a set of shared methodologies and perspectives, this text looks to break down ...
