Teaching And Learning Difficult Histories In International Contexts
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Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories in International Contexts
Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Defined as representations of past violence and oppression, difficult histories are contested and can evoke emotional, often painful, responses in the present. Teaching and learning these histories is contentious yet necessary for increased dialogue within conflict-ridden societies, reconciliation in post-conflict societies, and greater social cohesion in long-standing democratic nations. Focusing on locations and populations across the globe, chapter authors investigate how key themes—including culture, identity, collective memory, emotion, and multi-perspectivity, historical consciousness, distance, and amnesia—inform the teaching and learning of difficult histories.
Teaching and Learning the Difficult Past
Building upon the theoretical foundations for the teaching and learning of difficult histories in social studies classrooms, this edited collection offers diverse perspectives on school practices, curriculum development, and experiences of teaching about traumatic events. Considering the relationship between memory, history, and education, this volume advances the discussion of classroom-based practices for teaching and learning difficult histories and investigates the role that history education plays in creating and sustaining national and collective identities.
Education and Historical Justice
Education and Historical Justice explores the growing relationship between historical justice and education in comparative transnational contexts. It argues that in the period since the early-1990s – known as the 'age of apology'– processes of redress, repair, and reconciliation have become common in liberal-democratic nation-states. Yet, education's role in, and relationship to, historical justice is a relatively under researched issue. This book addresses that gap, exploring key questions for policy makers, curriculum writers, teachers, and students who are being mobilised and mobilising towards historical justice within cultures of redress. This includes analyses of educational reforms and policy changes in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. The book considers how agendas of historical justice relate to and potentially challenge established purposes of history and citizenship education. It outlines three potential orientations history education might take and is already taking in response to agendas of historical justice. Chapters engage perennial debates in the field– time, narrative, and collective responsibility – exploring conceptual dilemmas that arise when engaging questions of historical justice. This book draws out key opportunities and challenges for educators and learners within cultures of redress, who are being positioned to engage historical justice movements and imagine reparative futures.