Sensitive Pasts

Questioning Heritage in Education

Carla van Boxtel, Maria Grever, Stephan Klein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-304-0 (ISBN)

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Heritage studies necessarily must deal with strong emotions and political commitments. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers and their students. Guided by a shared focus on these "sensitive pasts," the contributors to this volume draw on new theoretical and empirical research to provide valuable insights into heritage pedagogy.

Heritage, as an area of research and learning, often deals with difficult historical questions, due to the strong emotions and political commitments that are often at stake. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers, museum educators and the publics they serve. Guided by a shared focus on these “sensitive pasts,” the contributors to this volume draw on new theoretical and empirical research to provide valuable insights into heritage pedagogy. Together they demonstrate the potential of heritage as a historical-educational domain that transcends myopic patriotism, parochialism and simplistic relativism, helping to enhance critical and sophisticated historical thinking.

Carla van Boxtel is Professor of History Education at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education and the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, University of Amsterdam. She is also director of the Dutch Center for Social Studies Education.

Introduction: The Appeal of Heritage in Education 

Carla van Boxtel, Maria Grever & Stephan Klein 

PART I: REFLECTIONS ON HERITAGE AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Chapter 1. Are Heritage Education and Critical Historical Thinking Compatible? Reflections on Historical Consciousness from Canada

Peter Seixas

Chapter 2. The Continuous Threat of Excess? A Cautionary Tale about Heritage Celebration and Object Veneration in the United States

Bruce VanSledright

Chapter 3. Antiquarianism and Historical Consciousness in the New Media Age

Chiel van den Akker

PART II: EXPERIENCING HERITAGE AND AUTHENTICITY

Chapter 4. Why do Emotions Matter in Museums?

Sheila Watson

Chapter 5. Dutch Dealings with the Slavery Past: Contexts of an Exhibition

Alex van Stipriaan

Chapter 6. Tagging Borobudur: Heritage Education and the Colonial Past in Onsite and Online Museum Collections

Susan Legêne

Chapter 7. Unlocking Essences and Exploring Networks: Experiencing Authenticity in Heritage Education Settings

Siân Jones

Chapter 8. Archaeological Heritage Education and the Making of Regional Identities

Heleen van Londen

Epilogue Part II: History, Heritage, and the Spaces In Between

 Brenda Trofanenko 

PART III: TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT SENSITVE HERITAGE

Chapter 9. Holocaust Heritage Nearby: How to Analyse Historical Distance in Education

Stephan Klein

Chapter 10. Engaging Experiences of World War II: Historical Distance in Exhibitions and Educational Resources

Pieter de Bruijn

Chapter 11. An Intriguing Historical Trace or Heritage? Learning about Another Person’s Heritage in an Exhibition Addressing WWII

Geerte Savenije

Chapter 12. Increasing Understanding or Undermining National Heritage: Studying Single and Multiple Perspectives of a Formative Historical Conflict.

Tsafrir Goldberg

Chapter 13. Voicing Dissonance: Teaching the Violence of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Alexandra Binnenkade 

Epilogue Part III: Taking Students’ Ideas Seriously: Moving beyond the History-Heritage Dichotomy

Keith C. Barton 

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Making Sense of History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-78533-304-6 / 1785333046
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-304-0 / 9781785333040
Zustand	Neuware