The colonial past in history textbooks : historical and social psychological perspectives / edited by Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, Joaquim Pires Valentim.

"This book examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonisation in the 1960s and 70s - the so-called era of Modern Imperialism - in post-war history textbooks from across the world. The aim of the book is to examine the evolving outlook of colonial representations in history education and the underpinning explanations for the specific outlook in different - former colonizer and colonised - countries (to be found in collective memory, popular historical culture, social representations, identity-building processes, and the state of historical knowledge within academia). The approach of the book is novel and innovative in different ways. First of all, given the complexity of the research, an original interdisciplinary approach has been implemented, which brings together historians, history educators and social psychologists to examine representations of colonialism in history education in different countries around the world while drawing on different theoretical frameworks. Secondly, given the interest in the interplay between collective memory, popular historical culture, social representations, and the state of historical knowledge within academia, a diachronic approach is implemented, examining the evolving representations of the colonial past, and connecting them to developments within society at large and academia"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Post-1945 colonial historiography and the new imperial history / Matthew G. Stanard -- Politics, identity, and perspectives in history textbooks / Wolfgang Wagner, Katrin Kello, and Inari Sakki -- Imperial ideas and ideologies of empire : British imperial history in educational books for K-3 history / Lilia Abadia and Jane-Marie Collins -- A rosy foreign country : examining modern colonialism in Spanish history textbooks (1964-2015) / Ignacio Brescó de Luna -- Colonialism and decolonisation in history textbooks for Italian upper secondary school / Luigi Cajani -- From the civilizing mission to the postcolonial condition : representations of colonialism through the prism of decolonization in French history textbooks since the 1960s / Marcus Otto -- Colonialism in Portuguese history textbooks : a diachronic psychosocial study / Joaquim Pires Valentim and Isabel Miguel -- Towards a postcolonial mindset in a post-colonial world : evolving representations of modern imperialism in Belgian history textbooks (1945-2017) / Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse -- "Decolonizing the mind" : historiographical perspectives on modern imperialism and colonialism in Zimbabwean post-colonial history textbooks (1980s-present day) / Denise Bentrovato -- "Colonialism in the mirror" : an analysis of representations of colonialism in school history textbooks in Malta before and after independence (1964) / Simone Azzopardi and Emanuel Buttigieg -- Representations of European colonialism, African resistance, and liberation struggles in Mozambican history curricula and textbooks / Rosa Cabecinhas, Isabel Macedo, Cassimo Jamal, and Alberto Sá -- Representations of modern imperialism in Chilean history textbooks : an analysis framed by the 1998 and 2009 curricula / Ana Figueiredo and Renato Gazmuri -- Perspectives on representations of colonial pasts through textbook analysis : not quite a decolonial turn / Johan Wassermann.

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