History wars and the classroom
Subtitle: global perspectives
By: edited by Tony Taylor, Robert Guyver
Series: Studies in the history of education
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781617355264; 9781617355271; 9781617355288
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Historiography; Case studies; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Legacies, ruptures and inertias : history in the Argentine school system / Maria Paula Gonzalez; title: Under siege from right and left : a tale of the Australian school history wars / Tony Taylor; title: "We were allowed to disagree, because we couldn't agree on anything" : seventeen voices in Canadian debates over history education / Ruth Sandwell; title: Controversiality and consciousness : contemporary history education in Germany / Sylvia Semmet; title: Denial in the classroom : political origins of the Japanese textbook controversy / Tony Taylor; title: "Little is taught or learned in schools" : debates over the place of history in the New Zealand school curriculum / Mark Sheehan; title: Transforming images of nation-building : ideology and nationalism in history school textbooks in Putin's Russia, 2001-2010 / Joseph Zajda; title: Dealing with a reign of virtue : the post-apartheid South African school history curriculum / Rob Siebörger; title: The history working group and beyond : a case study in the UK's history quarrels / Robert Guyver; title: Wars and rumors of war : the rhetoric and reality of history education in the United States / Keith Barton.