Teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts : a critical sociocultural approach

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    • Epstein, Terrie
    • Peck, Carla L.

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Teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts : a critical sociocultural approach

edited by Terrie Epstein and Carla L. Peck

(Routledge research in international and comparative education)

Routledge, 2019, c2018

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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.

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Introduction: Terrie Epstein and Carla L. Peck Section 1 Re-presentations of Difficult Histories Chapter 1: Sustainable History Lessons for Post-Conflict Society Sirkka Ahonen Chapter 2: Teaching the War: Reflections on Popular Uses of Difficult Heritage Maria Grever Chapter 3: "Argue the contrary for the purpose of getting a PhD": Revisionist historians, the Singapore government and the Operation Coldstore controversy LOH Kah Seng Chapter 4: The State and the Volving of Teaching about Apartheid in School History in South Africa, Circa 1994-2016 Johan Wasserman Commentary: Peter Seixas Section 2 Teaching and Learning Indigenous Histories Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning difficult histories: Australia Anna Clark Chapter 6: Pedagogies of Forgetting: Colonial Encounters and Nationhood at New Zealand's National Museum Joanna Kidman Chapter 7: 'People are still grieving': Maori and non-Maori adolescent's perceptions of the Treaty of Waitangi Mark Sheehan, Terrie Epstein, Michael Harcourt Chapter 8: "That's Not My History": The Reconceptualization of Canadian History Education in Nova Scotia Schools Jennifer Tinkham Commentary: Sirkka Ahonen Section 3 Teachers and Teaching Difficult Histories Chapter 9: "On whose side are you?": Difficult histories in the Israeli context Tsafrir Goldberg Chapter 10: Teaching History and Educating for Citizenship: Allies or 'uneasy bedfellows' in a post-conflict context? Alan McCully Chapter 11: Teacher Understandings of Political Violence Represented in National Histories: The Trail of Tears Narrative Alan Stoskopf and Angela Bermudez Chapter 12: Teacher Resistance Towards Difficult Histories: The Centrality of Affect in Disrupting Teacher Learning Michalinos Zembylas C

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