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History Education at the Edge of the Nation

Political Autonomy, Educational Reforms, and Memory-shaping in European Periphery

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Editors:
  1. Piero S. Colla

    1. Department of Dutch and Scandinavian Studies, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

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  2. Andrea Di Michele

    1. Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bressanone, Italy

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  • Brings together experts of national myth-building, heritage studies, specialists in history didactics
  • Investigates the evolution of history teaching in border areas in Europe from a comparative perspective
  • Includes detailed analysis of various didactic tools such as textbooks over time

Part of the book series: Global Histories of Education (GHE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Denationalising and Reinventing Historical Education—In a Time of History Wars

    • Piero S. Colla, Andrea Di Michele
    Pages 1-14

  3. Identity Politics, Educational Governance, and the History Curriculum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. A Nation-Building Tool Under Pressure?: “Invisible Nations”, European Integration and History Teaching after 1945

      • Piero S. Colla
      Pages 17-49

    3. The Teaching of History in Schools in South Tyrol, from 1945 to the Present Day: From Promoting Identity to Building a Common History

      • Andrea Di Michele
      Pages 51-78

    4. History Education in Luxembourg’s Secondary Schools in the 1950s–1970s: Ideas and Experiments

      • Machteld Venken
      Pages 79-99

    5. Challenges of Teaching History for the Bosniak Ethnic Community/National Minority in the Republic of Serbia Within the Post-Conflict Setting

      • Marko Šuica, Ana Radakovic´
      Pages 101-123

    6. Swedish School Curricula and Sámi Self-Identification: The Syllabus from 1960s to 2011

      • Charlotta Svonni, Lina Spjut
      Pages 125-147
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About this book

This edited volume explores the evolution of history education from a transnational perspective, focusing on border regions in Europe that are considered on the "periphery" of the Nation-State. By introducing this concept and taking into consideration the dynamics of decentralization and the development of minorities’ teaching practices and narratives, the book sheds light on new challenges for history education policy and curriculum design. Chapters take a comparative approach,  dissecting and analyzing specific case studies from school systems in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and Scandinavian countries.  In doing so, the editors and their authors weave a systematic account of the impact of local autonomy on educational culture, on the civic remit of schools, and on the narratives embodied by history school canons. 

Reviews

“The cast of contributors for this book is quite intimidating and mouth-watering since their biographies, though brief, read almost like a Who is Who in History Education in Europe! All 17 contributors possess colourful qualifications on the teaching and learning of history … . It leaves any reader looking forward to delve into the contents of the book! … The book is of great service to the history teaching and learning constituency!” (Walter Sengai, Yesterday & Today, Issue 30, December, 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Dutch and Scandinavian Studies, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Piero S. Colla

  • Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bressanone, Italy

    Andrea Di Michele

About the editors

Andrea Di Michele is Associater Professor at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. 

Piero S. Colla is Adjunct Professor of North European Political Models at Strasbourg University, France.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: History Education at the Edge of the Nation

  • Book Subtitle: Political Autonomy, Educational Reforms, and Memory-shaping in European Periphery

  • Editors: Piero S. Colla, Andrea Di Michele

  • Series Title: Global Histories of Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27246-2

  • 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 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27245-5Published: 29 June 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27248-6Due: 29 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27246-2Published: 27 June 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2731-6408

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-6416

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Education, International and Comparative Education, Curriculum Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, European History

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