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History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives

History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives

Paperback

Series: Studies in the History of Education

General EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1617355267
ISBN13: 9781617355264
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Dec 6 2011
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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)).

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General World History