Overview
- Examines how expectations of historical justice movements are understood within educational contexts
- Draws together research from a multitude of global contexts to analyse the role of history education in processes of historical injustice
- Explores the many ways in which education is understood as both a site of historical injustice and a mechanism for redress
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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State-Sponsored Processes and Education
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Historical Justice in Public History Spaces
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Educational Materials: Textbooks, Curricula, Policy
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Pedagogy, Teachers, and Students
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Reviews
“This groundbreaking collection explores the pivotal role of history education in dealing with issues of historical justice in a wide array of contexts. What emerges is a rich picture of the transformation of social justice knowledge—from state-sponsored reconciliation projects, local memory, or other sources—into policy, materials, methods and prescriptions for schools, museums and memorial sites. It underscores what we should already know: in this field there are no easy solutions.”
—Peter Seixas, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Canada
“It was Faulkner who noted that ‘the past is never dead. It isn't even past.’ This collection of essays shows the truth of Faulkner's insight across an array of national contexts. The ghastly sins of the past haunt our present. If we can muster the courage to look, clear-eyed, at these sins, we can use the past to seek justice, healing, and reconciliation in the present. This bracing volume offers hope that a sober reckoning can lead to a better tomorrow.”
—Sam Wineburg, Margaret James Professor of Education & History, Stanford University, USA
“This long overdue volume makes an outstanding contribution to historical justice practices by compiling case studies from many parts of the world. In taking into account the relationship between historical justice and history education it also offers a critical reflection on the role of historians in these practices. The cutting-edge chapters by leading experts valuably extend our knowledge within this field and add significantly to our understanding of reconciliation processes.”
—Eckhardt Fuchs, Professor, Director of the Georg Eckert Institute, Germany
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Henrik Åström Elmersjö is Associate Professor of History and Education at the Department of Education, Umeå University, Sweden.
Daniel Lindmark is Professor of History and Education at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, Sweden.
Björn Norlin is Associate Professor of History and Education at the Department of Education, Umeå University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical Justice and History Education
Editors: Matilda Keynes, Henrik Åström Elmersjö, Daniel Lindmark, Björn Norlin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70412-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70411-7Published: 21 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70414-8Published: 22 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70412-4Published: 21 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 435
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Education, Sociology of Education, Historiography and Method, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education