Behind the Battle Lines of History as Politics: An International and Intergenerational Methodology for Testing the Social Identity Thesis of History Education

dc.creator	Tony Taylor
dc.creator	Sue Collins
dc.date	2012-11-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:47Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:47Z
dc.identifier	10.3390/educsci2040208
dc.identifier	2227-7102
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d935f81e7861468e8868009a033d8f7d
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15518
dc.description	This article critiques popular assumptions that underlie the ongoing politicisation of school history curriculum as an agent of social identity and behaviour. It raises some key research questions which need further investigation and suggests a potential methodology for establishing evidence-based understanding of the relationship between history education, historical consciousness, identity politics and civil discord. The proposed methodology is based on comparative research of the lived experience of history education and social disposition in two generations in three modern democratic nations each of which represent in their recent histories different models of social integration. The article suggests that without such evidence-based theorisation of the relationship between historical consciousness and social identity, the evolution of history curricula will remain vulnerable to the ongoing incursions of hostile but poorly conceived political rhetoric.
dc.language	English
dc.relation	http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/2/4/208
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2227-7102
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Education Sciences, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 208-217 (2012)
dc.subject	history education
dc.subject	social identity
dc.subject	historical consciousness
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Behind the Battle Lines of History as Politics: An International and Intergenerational Methodology for Testing the Social Identity Thesis of History Education
dc.type	article