History wars and the classroom : global perspectives / edited by Tony Taylor (Monash University) and Robert Guyver (University College Plymouth St. Mark and St. John).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Tony, editor.

Guyver, Robert, editor.

Series:

Studies in the history of education (Greenwich, Conn.)

Studies in the history of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Case studies.

History.

Historiography--Political aspects--Case studies.

Historiography.

Historiography--Social aspects--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 205 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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 of who writes it (very topical in England at the moment over two expat 'big picture' historians who work at Harvard and Columbia (Niall Ferguson and Simon Schama)).

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-61735-527-5

OCLC:

923177569