History wars and the classroom : global perspectives

The book is entitled History Wars in 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 opposing...

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Other Authors Taylor, Tony (Editor), Guyver, Robert (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2012]
SeriesStudies in the history of education (Greenwich, Conn.)
Subjects
History > Study and teaching (Secondary) > Case studies.
Historiography > Political aspects > Case studies.
Historiography > Social aspects > Case studies.
elektronické knihy
Case studies.
Education > History.
Teaching of a specific subject.
History of education.
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615698
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-528-8
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Legacies, ruptures and inertias : history in the Argentine school system / Maria Paula Gonzalez
  • Under siege from right and left : a tale of the Australian school history wars / Tony Taylor
  • "We were allowed to disagree, because we couldn't agree on anything" : seventeen voices in Canadian debates over history education / Ruth Sandwell
  • Controversiality and consciousness : contemporary history education in Germany / Sylvia Semmet
  • Denial in the classroom : political origins of the Japanese textbook controversy / Tony Taylor
  • "Little is taught or learned in schools" : debates over the place of history in the New Zealand school curriculum / Mark Sheehan
  • Transforming images of nation-building : ideology and nationalism in history school textbooks in Putin's Russia, 2001-2010 / Joseph Zajda
  • Dealing with a reign of virtue : the post-apartheid South African school history curriculum / Rob Siebörger
  • The history working group and beyond : a case study in the UK's history quarrels / Robert Guyver
  • Wars and rumors of war : the rhetoric and reality of history education in the United States / Keith Barton.

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