Opening the Mind or Drawing Boundaries?
History Texts in Nordic Schools
Edited by Thorsteinn Helgason Edited by Simone Lässig Series edited by Simone Lässig
Paperback (Published)
(December 2009)
ISBN: 9783899714821
6.22 x 9.49 inches
Price: $63.00
On back order
History texts studied by students in schools are an important field for drawing boundaries between nations, beliefs, ethnic groups and countries, sometimes causing disputes and protests. Even in the democratic and peaceful Nordic countries, history texts carry a message of authorized content knowledge and situated values. At the same time, they are meant to foster the critical mind, a skillfull eye and a tolerant spirit. In this volume, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden explore the question of Us and the Others in Nordic textbooks and educational media and focus on teachers’ opinions and use of history texts, partly based on a survey among Nordic history teachers in elementary and secondary schools. The questions dealt with are of national identity and multiculturalism, sameness and difference, content and pedagogy, skills and values, goals of history education and teachers’ situations. The scholars and teachers compare the educational and societal aims with the actual teaching materials at hand. The potentialities and limitations of textbooks and other educational media are investigated and discussed.
Þorsteinn Helgason is Associate Professor for History Education at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik/Iceland.
- Edited by Thorsteinn Helgason
- Edited by Simone Lässig
- Series edited by Simone Lässig
Other Titles in this Series
Zwischen Ökonomie und Ökologie?
Raumstruktureller Wandel, Raumplanung und Nutzungskonflikte in Deutschland und Polen
Integrationsmedium Schulbuch
Anforderungen an Islamischen Religionsunterricht und seine Bildungsmaterialien
Transnationale Wissenschafts- und Verhandlungskultur
Die Gemeinsame Deutsch-Polnische Schulbuchkommission 1972–1990
Die vielen Gesichter des Holocaust
Museale Repräsentationen zwischen Individualisierung, Universalisierung und Nationalisierung
Luther und die Reformation in internationalen Geschichtskulturen
Perspektiven für den Geschichtsunterricht
Oberschlesien und sein kulturelles Erbe
Erinnerungspolitische Befunde, bildungspolitische Impulse und didaktische Innovationen
Enseigner le nazisme et la Shoah. Une étude comparée des manuels scolaires en Europe
Teaching nazism and the Shoah. A comparative study of European school history textbooks
Myths and Mythical Spaces
Conditions and Challenges for History Textbooks in Albania and South-Eastern Europe
Emotionen, Geschichte und historisches Lernen
Geschichtsdidaktische und geschichtskulturelle Perspektiven
Zweierlei 1968?
Die Umbruchjahre 1968 und 1989 in deutschen und tschechischen Geschichtsschulbüchern
Geschichtsmythen über Hispanoamerika
Entdeckung, Eroberung und Kolonisierung in deutschen und österreichischen Schulbüchern des 21. Jahrhunderts
Diskurse und Praktiken der Schulbuchproduktion in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und England am Beispiel von Afrikawissen
Das ›Pruzzenland‹ als geteilte Erinnerungsregion
Konstruktion und Repräsentation eines europäischen Geschichtsraums in Deutschland, Polen, Litauen und Russland seit 1900
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