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Introduction: Connecting Historical Justice and History Education

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This chapter works as an introduction to the overall theme of the volume, details the origin of the book, and outlines thematic sections and individual chapters. It also supplies a research overview and a summary of the emergence and rise of historical justice movements and processes around the world, detailing the ways that history education, broadly conceived, has been positioned as a significant site of historical injustice, as well as a mechanism for historical redress. Further, the chapter discusses this evolving relationship between historical justice and history education, elaborates on central concepts that appear in the book, and outlines challenges and possibilities this relationship generates for both fields.

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    Although there are long-standing literatures addressing history education in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine which are established democracies. See, for example, McCully 2012; Goldberg 2017. 

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    Matilda Keynes

  2. Department of Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Henrik Åström Elmersjö & Björn Norlin

  3. Department of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Daniel Lindmark

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Keynes, M., Åström Elmersjö, H., Lindmark, D., Norlin, B. (2021). Introduction: Connecting Historical Justice and History Education. In: Keynes, M., Åström Elmersjö, H., Lindmark, D., Norlin, B. (eds) Historical Justice and History Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70412-4_1

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