El. knyga: Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education

This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. Carretero, Berger and Grever provide a comprehensive overview through 38 chapters divided into four parts:  a) Historical  Culture and Public Uses of History; b) The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of  Postcolonial Societies; c) Reflections on History Learning  and Teaching; d) Educational  Resources: Curricula, Textbooks and New Media. This unique text integrates contributions of researchers from History, Education, Collective Memory, Museum Studies, Heritage, Social and Cognitive Psychology and other Social Sciences and also stimulates an interdisciplinary dialogue. Contributors come from various countries of Northern and Southern America, Europe and Asia providing an international perspective that does justice to the complexity of this field of study. The Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education provides the state-of-the-art on current research on historical culture and history education focussing on how citizens and societies make sense of the past through different ways of representing it.