History wars and the classroom [[electronic resource] ] : global perspectives / / edited by Tony Taylor, Robert Guyver

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461870503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlotte, N.C., : Information Age Pub., 2012
• Descrizione fisica: xxii, 205 p. : ill
• Collana: Studies in the history of education
• Altri autori (Persone): TaylorTony <1943->; GuyverRobert
• Disciplina: 907.1/2
• Soggetti: History - Study and teaching (Secondary); Historiography - Political aspects; Historiography - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Legacies, ruptures and inertias : history in the Argentine school system / Maria Paula Gonzalez -- Under siege from right and left : a tale of the Australian school history wars / Tony Taylor -- "We were allowed to disagree, because we couldn't agree on anything" : seventeen voices in Canadian debates over history education / Ruth Sandwell -- Controversiality and consciousness : contemporary history education in Germany / Sylvia Semmet -- Denial in the classroom : political origins of the Japanese textbook controversy / Tony Taylor -- "Little is taught or learned in schools" : debates over the place of history in the New Zealand school curriculum / Mark Sheehan -- Transforming images of nation-building : ideology and nationalism in history school textbooks in Putin's Russia, 2001-2010 / Joseph Zajda -- Dealing with a reign of virtue : the post-apartheid South African school history curriculum / Rob Siebörger -- The history working group and beyond : a case study in the UK's history quarrels / Robert Guyver -- Wars and rumors of war : the rhetoric and reality of history education in the United States / Keith Barton.