Conflicts in history education in Europe : political context, history teaching, and national identity

"The heightened resonance of identity-driven politics in many states across twenty first century Europe emphasizes the critical role of history in shaping public contestation of the idea of the nation, and accordant manifestations of nationalism and national identity. How the past is interprete...

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Other Authors Delgado Cendagortagalarza, Ander (Editor), Mycock, Andrew (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2023]
SeriesHistory and society: integrating social, political and economic sciences
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601660
DOI10.1108/9798887302539
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ander Delgado and Andy Mycock
  • Part I: Teaching old and new empires
  • Chapter 1. Understanding empire in the 21st century / Terry Haydn
  • Chapter 2. Histories of an old empire: The ever-changing acknowledgment of dutch imperialism as a present past / Maria Grever and Susan Legêne
  • Chapter 3. Breaking the silence: Contemporary history teaching about Italian colonial crimes / Giovanna Leone
  • Chapter 4. Colonialism in portuguese history textbooks since the 1990s: Still, everything is fine / Joaquim Pires Valentim and Isabel Miguel
  • Part II: National identification and history teaching
  • Chapter 5. The public history of heimat and the schools / Marko Demantowsky
  • Chapter 6. The teaching of history in federal Belgium: The interplay between politics and history curricula in a nation-state in decline / Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, Jean-Louis Jadoulle, and Tom De Paepe
  • Chapter 7. Do basque schools create basque nationalists? The history syllabus in a divided society / Ander Delgado. About the Authors.