This book presents a survey of approaches to dealing with rival histories in the classroom, arguing that approaching this problem requires great sensitivity to differing national, educational and narrative contexts. Contested narratives and disputed histories have long been an important issue in history-teaching all over the world, and have even been described as the history or culture wars. In this book, authors from across the globe ponder the question what can teachers do (and what are they doing) to address conflicting narratives of the same past?, and puts an epistemological issue...
This book presents a survey of approaches to dealing with rival histories in the classroom, arguing that approaching this problem requires great sensi...