History Wars and The Classroom: Global Perspectives

History Wars and The Classroom: Global Perspectives
ISBN-10
1617355283
ISBN-13
9781617355288
Category
History
Pages
229
Language
English
Published
2012-03-01
Publisher
IAP
Authors
Tony Taylor, Robert Guyver

Description

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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