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Title School & nation : identity politics and educational media in an age of diversity / edited by Peter Carrier
Published Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2013]

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Contents Peter Carrier: Introduction -- Françoise Lantheaume: The Empire in French History Teaching. From a Promise to a Burden -- Amadou Fall: School and Nation in Senegal from 1960 to the Present Day. A History of Misunderstanding -- Jocelyn Létourneau: Teaching History and the Future of the Nation. The Case of Quebec -- Montserrat Oller i Freixa: The Social Sciences Curriculum of Catalonia and the Construction of a Regional Identity -- Elizabeth Hanauer: The Integration and Segregation of African American History. Self-esteem and Recognition in History Education -- Ramón López Facal: History Teaching in Galicia -- Anne-Marie Chartier: The Use of Literature in the Formation of French National Identity in School Teaching during the Twentieth Century -- Liliana Deyanova: Caught between Two Empires. History School Textbooks in Bulgaria in the Twentieth Century -- Diane Vincent: National Languages, Regional Variations and Immigration. The Challenge of Teaching French in Quebec -- Peter Carrier: Naming and Misnaming the Nation. Ambivalence and National Belonging in German Textbook Representations of the Holocaust -- Lydia Aït Saadi Bouras: The National History of Algeria as Reflected in Textbooks at a Time of Political and Educational Reform
Summary At a time when the power of schools and both state and federal education authorities to guide young people's sense of belonging is being challenged by multilingualism, by the claims of supra- and subnational regions and minorities, by memories of national catastrophes and crimes, and by out-of-school educational media, this collection of essays provides an apposite exploration of the ways in which shared narratives continue to be transmitted and learnt. Its authors, whose work emerged from a series of conferences organised by the French National Institute for Pedagogical Research in Lyon, Barc
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Subject Education and state -- Cross-cultural studies
Nationalism and education -- Cross-cultural studies
Textbook bias -- Cross-cultural studies
Multiculturalism -- Cross-cultural studies
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
Education and state
Multiculturalism
Nationalism and education
Textbook bias
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Carrier, Peter, editor.
ISBN 9783653024623
3653024625
Other Titles School and nation