The Palgrave Handbook of Conflict and History Education in the Post-Cold War Era
Editors: Cajani, Luigi, Lässig, Simone, Repoussi, Maria (Eds.)
Free Preview- Outlines conflicts within history education in 58 countries since the Cold War
- Illustrates the key issues over which conflict has arisen
- Sets the agenda for future development in the field of educational media research
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- About this book
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This Handbook provides a systematic and analytical approach to the various dimensions of international, ethnic and domestic conflict over the uses of national history in education since the end of the Cold War. With an upsurge in political, social and cultural upheaval, particularly since the fall of state socialism in Europe, the importance of history textbooks and curricula as tools for influencing the outlooks of entire generations is thrown into sharp relief. Using case studies from 58 countries, this book explores how history education has had the potential to shape political allegiances and collective identities. The contributors highlight the key issues over which conflict has emerged – including the legacies of socialism and communism, war, dictatorships and genocide – issues which frequently point to tensions between adhering to and challenging the idea of a cohesive national identity and historical narrative.
Global in scope, the Handbook will appeal to a diverse academic audience, including historians, political scientists, educationists, psychologists, sociologists and scholars working in the field of cultural and media studies.
- About the authors
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Luigi Cajani has taught Early Modern History and History Didactics at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is also an Associated Scholar of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany. His research interests include the history of historiography, history didactics and the political use of history.
Simone Lässig is Professor of Modern History at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, and Director of the German Historical Institute, USA, a position she has held since 2015. Her main areas of research concern modern Jewish and European history, the history of knowledge, textbook research, and history politics.
Maria Repoussi is Professor of History and History Education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her main research interests are the history of history education, the controversies surrounding school history, gender in history education, and history textbooks.
- Table of contents (57 chapters)
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Introduction: History Education Conflicts Around the World—Backgrounds, Settings, Foci
Pages 1-54
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Argentina
Pages 55-68
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Armenia
Pages 69-80
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Australia
Pages 81-88
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Azerbaijan
Pages 89-99
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Table of contents (57 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Palgrave Handbook of Conflict and History Education in the Post-Cold War Era
- Editors
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- Luigi Cajani
- Simone Lässig
- Maria Repoussi
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-05722-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-05722-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-05721-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XLIX, 778
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations
- Topics
