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History Education at the Edge of the Nation

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

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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
  2. Competing Narratives in History Schoolbooks and Teaching Arrangements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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. 

Keywords

  • comparative education
  • European curriculum
  • textbooks
  • teaching history
  • transnational history education

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: 13 July 2024

  • 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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eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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