2015
DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2015.1049978
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Different battlegrounds, similar concerns? The ‘history wars’ and the teaching of history in Australia and England

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“…Sin embargo, otros afirman que la educación histórica no está en crisis, sino al contrario. Andrew Peterson (2016) considera que hay gran interés entre el alumnado para estudiar historia, y entre los graduados de historia y otras humanidades en convertirse en docentes de historia. También existe gran interés en el debate político.…”
Section: Ks4 Culmina Con Las Evaluaciones Conocidas Como General Certificate Of Secondaryunclassified
“…Sin embargo, otros afirman que la educación histórica no está en crisis, sino al contrario. Andrew Peterson (2016) considera que hay gran interés entre el alumnado para estudiar historia, y entre los graduados de historia y otras humanidades en convertirse en docentes de historia. También existe gran interés en el debate político.…”
Section: Ks4 Culmina Con Las Evaluaciones Conocidas Como General Certificate Of Secondaryunclassified
“…There have been international so-called 'history wars' about the purpose, content and form of history education over the last decades (Peterson, 2016;Evans, 2010;Taylor & Guyver, 2012). Over the course of these fierce discussions, it has become clear that the development of historical thinking skills is now seen as 'primary goal of history education' (Levisohn, 2015, p. 1) by most history educators.…”
Section: Historical Thinking In the Austrian Curriculummentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The conservative reaction to history from below pressures was significant. At the core of the History Wars (Peterson, 2016) which played out at different times in different ways in varied national contexts was a concern that the historical consciousness of young people was being hijacked by progressive academics and an educational establishment undesirably influenced by political correctness, cultural studies, literary theory, and postmodernism. In the Australian context, for example, it was Geoffrey Blainey's view (1993) that the 'balance sheet' of the past was firmly in favour of the achievements of 'White society' since 'settlement,' and that any history that had an excessive focus on past wrongs promoted a mournful relationship with the past that harmed the nation.…”
Section: History Wars History From Below and Postcolonial Perspectivesmentioning
confidence: 99%