The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning 2018
DOI: 10.1002/9781119100812.ch19
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Teaching Controversial Historical Issues

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“…Apart from maintaining silences in history, teachers might also want to break silences. The current focus of history curricula in most Western countries on teaching historical inquiry and historical reasoning could be expected to stimulate critical engagement with the past and open discussion of sensitive historical issues (van Drie and van Boxtel 2008;Seixas and Morton 2013;Goldberg and Savenije 2018). There are two ways of understanding how sensitive historical issues are discussed in the history classroom, and silences are broken (Goldberg 2017).…”
Section: Breaking Silences In Diverse Classroom Settingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Apart from maintaining silences in history, teachers might also want to break silences. The current focus of history curricula in most Western countries on teaching historical inquiry and historical reasoning could be expected to stimulate critical engagement with the past and open discussion of sensitive historical issues (van Drie and van Boxtel 2008;Seixas and Morton 2013;Goldberg and Savenije 2018). There are two ways of understanding how sensitive historical issues are discussed in the history classroom, and silences are broken (Goldberg 2017).…”
Section: Breaking Silences In Diverse Classroom Settingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This international movement of people has imported new controversies into the classroom. Historical topics that are not controversial in academia or the dominant majority's public realm could become controversial or sensitive in such classrooms because of the diversity of pupils and the narratives that they bring with them (Goldberg and Savenije 2018). In such diverse classroom settings, the presence of pupils of migrant backgrounds, who bring new voices and new sensitivities with them, can lead to the opposite outcomes of breaking silences, as well as the silencing of previously frequently discussed issues.…”
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“…Teaching about sensitive issues in history can thus not be isolated from the cultural and socio-political context and may pose different challenges to teachers in different societal contexts (Misco 2012;Goren and Yemini 2017;Goldberg and Savenije 2018;Kello 2016). In Western democracies teaching controversial issues is often seen as an integral part of citizenship education, social studies education, or history education.…”
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confidence: 99%