Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education

This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. The editors provide a comprehensive overview through thirty-eight chapters divided into four parts: a) Historical Culture and Public Uses of History; b) The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of Postcolonial Societies; c) Reflections on History Learning and Teaching; d) Educational Resources: Curricula, Textbooks and New Media. This unique text integrates contributions of researchers from history, education, collective memory, museum studies, heritage, social and cognitive psychology, and other social sciences, stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue. Contributors come from various countries of Northern and Southern America, Europe and Asia, providing an international perspective that does justice to the complexity of this field of study. The Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education provides state-of-the-art research, focussing on how citizens and societies make sense of the past through different ways of representing it.

Mario Carretero is Professor at Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, and Researcher at FLACSO, Argentina. He has carried out an extensive research on history education. His last two books are History Education and the Construction of National Identities (2012) (co-ed.) and Constructing Patriotism (funded by the Guggenheim Foundation) (2011). Stefan Berger is Director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Foundation Library of the Rhur University-Bochum, Germany. His research interests are modern and contemporary european history, especially of Germany and Britain, comparative labour history, nationalism and history of historiography. He has published The Contested Nation (2011) and Nationalizing the Past (2010). Maria Grever is Professor of History and Theory and Director of the Center for Historical Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has published widely on canonization processes, historical culture, collective memory and identity, heritage and history education. Currently she leads the research program War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts (2015-2019).

Acknowledgements.- List of Contributors.- 1 Introduction: Historical Cultures and Education in Transition.- Mario Carretero, Stefan Berger, Maria Grever.- Part I Historical Culture: Conceptualizing the Public Uses of History.- 2 History Writing and Constructions of National Space - The Long Dominance of the National in Modern European Historiographies.- Stefan Berger.- 3 Historical Consciousness and Historical Thinking.- Peter Seixas.- 4 Historical Culture: a Concept Revisited.- Maria Grever and Robbert-Jan Adriaansen.- 5 Historical Rights to Land: How Latin American States Made the Past Normative and What Happened to History and Historical Education as a Result.- Tamar Herzog.- 6 'The Times They Are a-Changin'. On Time, Space and Periodization in History.- Chris Lorenz.- 7 Democracy and History Museums. Museo de America.- Marisa González de Oleaga.- 8 Illustrating National History.- Peter Burke.- 9 Film, the Past, and a Didactic Dead End: From Teaching History to Teaching Memory.- Wulf Kansteiner.- 10 Historical Edutainment: New Forms and Practices of Popular History?.- Barbara Korte and Sylvia Palatschek.- 11 The Jurassic Park of Historical Culture.- Antonis Liakos and Mitsos Bilalis.- Part II The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of Postcolonial Societies.- 12 Teaching National history to Young People Today.- Jocelyn Letourneau.- 13 Echoing National Narratives in English History Textbooks.- Tina van der Vlies.- 14 Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts of History Textbooks.- Susan Grindel.- 15 History in French Secondary School: a Tale of Progress and Universalism or a Narrative of Present Society?.- Nicole Tutiaux-Guillon.- 16 National Narratives and the Invention of Ethnic Identities in Morocco.- Norah Karrouche.- 17 Constructing Identity and Power in History Education in Ukraine: Approaches to Formation of Peace Culture.- Karina V. Korostelina.- 18 Postcolonial Discourses and Teaching National History. The History Educators' Attempts to Overcome Colonialism in the Republic of Korea.- Sunjoo Kang.- 19 History for Nation-Building: the Case of Greece and Turkey.- Herculas Millas.- 20 Conflicting Narratives about Argentinean "Conquest of the Desert". Social Representations, Cognitive Polyphasia, and Nothingness.- Alicia Barreiro, José Antonio Castorina, Floor van Alphen.- 21 After Empire: the Politics of History Education in a Postcolonial World.- Andrew Mycock.- Part III Reflections on History Learning and Teaching.- 22 What to Teach in History Education When the Social Pact Shakes?.- Alberto Rosa and Ignacio Bresco.- 23 The Power of Story: Historical Narratives and the Construction of Civic Identity.- Helen Haste and Ángela Bermúdez.- 24 Shared Principles in History and Social Science Education.- Keith Barton.- 25 Concepts Acquisition and Conceptual Change in History.- Maria Rodriguez-Moneo and Cesar Lopez.- 26 Social Representations Concepts of the Past and Competences in History Education.- Dario Páez, Magdalena Bobowik and James Liu.- 27 Teaching History Master Narratives: Fostering ImagiNATIONS.- Mario Carretero.- 28 Organizing the Past: Historical Accounts, Significance and Unknown Ontologies.- Lis Cercadillo, Arthur Chapman and Peter Lee.- 29 Historical Reading and Writing in Secondary School Classrooms.- Jeffrey Nokes.- 30 Engaging Students in Historical Reasoning: the Need for Dialogic History Education.- Carla van Boxtel and Jannet van Drie.- Part IV Educational Resources: Trends in Curricula, Textbooks, Museums and New Media.- 31 Bridging the Gap - Comparing History Curricula in History Teacher Education in Western Countries.- Nicola Brauch.- 32 Cultural Wars and History Textbooks in Democratic Societies.- Tony Taylor and Stuart Macintyre.- 33 Trends and Issues Surrounding the Reading of Historical Texts in the Republic of Korea.- Hohwan Yang.- 34 History Education Reform in Twenty-First Century China.- Side Wang, Yueqin Li, Zhongjie Meng and Chencheng Shen.- 35 Tools in Teaching Recent Past Conflicts. Constructing Textbooks beyond National Borders.- Robert Maier.- 36 Emotional, Moral and Symbolic Imagery of Modern Russian History Textbooks.- Tatyana Tsyrlina and Michael Lovorn.- 37 Educational Websites on the Memory of Slavery in Europe: the Ongoing Challenge of History Teaching.- Stephan Klein.- 38 Social Media, New Technologies and History Education.- Terry Haydn and Kees Ribbens.- 39 The Neverending Story about Heritage and Museums: Four Discursive Models.- Mikel Asensio and Elena Pol.- Index