Negotiating ethnic diversity and national identity in history education : international and comparative perspectives / Helen Ting Mu Hung, Luigi Cajani, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hung, Helen Ting Mu, editor.

Cajani, Luigi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching--Political aspects.

History.

Cultural pluralism.

Nationalism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Summary:

This edited book explores the problems and challenges of negotiating the representation of ethnic minorities within history education. It investigates how states balance the (non-)acknowledgement of the reality of cultural or religious diversity, and the promotion of a point of convergence in history education to foster national identity. Shifting our attention away from the intractable challenges posed by post-conflict countries for reconciliation, the contributors draw attention to the need to explore ways to prevent or pre-empt conflicts and exclusion through history education, which could contribute to developing a more sustainable culture of peace. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and sources, this book asks how history education could contribute to forming critical, historically informed, and committed young citizens. The book will be of interest to students and academics working on themes such as nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, history education, multicultural education, peace studies and area studies, as well as practitioners in the fields of history, social studies, civic or citizenship. Helen Ting Mu Hung is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia (UKM). Besides history education, her other research interests include national integration, multiculturalism, nationalism, gender and politics, identity and agency, and the politics of national identity. Luigi Cajani is a retired Professor of Early Modern History at the Facolt di Lettere e Filosofia, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He was formerly president (20122018) of the International Research Association for History and Social Sciences Education and is currently an associated scholar at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating Ethnic Diversity With National Identity in History Education

Part I: The Politics of Reconciliation and History Education in Post-conflict Contexts

Chapter 2: Peace Through History Education: The Activities of UNESCO, the Georg-Eckert-Institut and the Council of Europe

Chapter 3: Cure or Disease? History Education and the Politics of Reconciliation in East Asia

Chapter 4: Unity in Diversity or Political Separation Driven by Cultural Difference? Textbook Revision in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Chapter 5: Curricular Decentralisation as an Antidote to Burmanisation? Including Ethnic Minorities Histories in Myanmars Government Schools (2011-20)

Part II: Negotiating the History of Minorities in European Settler Countries and a Former Empire

Chapter 6: Portrayals of Ethnic Minorities, Migration and Empire in English History Textbooks (1920-2020)

Chapter 7: History Education and Historical Thinking in Multicultural Contexts: A Canadian Perspective

Chapter 8: National Identity in the History Curriculum in Australia: Educating for Citizenship

Chapter 9: Potentially Transformative: Aligning Mori Perspectives, Difficult Histories and Historical Thinking

Part III: Reconciling Ethnonationalism With Ethnic Diversity in Asia

Chapter 10: Reconstructing the Nation: Struggles in Portraying Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Mainstream History Textbooks

Chapter 11: Historical Narratives and National Identity in Lower Secondary History Textbooks in Malaysia (1959-2020)

Chapter 12: National Identity and History Teaching in Singapore: Bringing the Malays Back In

Chapter 13: Constructing the Thai Race in Thai History Textbook Narratives

Chapter 14: Afterword: Minorities and History Teaching.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Negotiating ethnic diversity and national identity in history education.

ISBN:

9783031125355

3031125355

OCLC:

1381367657

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.