History wars and the classroom global perspectives /

History wars and the classroom global perspectives / [electronic resource] : edited by Tony Taylor, Robert Guyver. - Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2012. - xxii, 205 p. : ill. - Studies in the history of education . - Studies in the history of education (Greenwich, Conn.) .

Includes bibliographical references.

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 Sieborger -- 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781617355288 (electronic bk.)




History--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Case studies.
Historiography--Political aspects--Case studies.
Historiography--Social aspects--Case studies.


Electronic books.

D16.25 / .H525 2012

907.1/2