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Re-imagining the Teaching of European History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Re-imagining the Teaching of European History

This book explores the challenges of teaching European history in the 21st century and provides research-informed approaches to history teaching that combine civic education, historical consciousness, and the teaching of controversial social issues. With contributions from researchers across Europe, the book includes both theoretical and case study chapters. The first part of the book addresses issues such as globalization and teaching in an interconnected world, using multicultural and critical approaches, decolonizing education, and teaching uncomfortable narratives of the past. The second part of the book showcases thematic chapters dedicated to teaching intersecting topics in the Europea...

The Last Survivor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Last Survivor

This book proposes an interpretation of Francoism as the Spanish variant of fascism. Unlike Italian fascism and Nazism, the Franco regime survived the Second World War and continued its existence until the death of dictator Francisco Franco. Francoism was, therefore, the Last Survivor of the fascisms of the interwar period. And indeed this designation applies equally to Franco. The work begins with an analysis of the historical identity of Spanish fascism, constituted in the process of fascistization of the Spanish right during the crisis of the Second Republic, and consolidated in the formation of the fascist single-party and the New State during the civil war. Subsequent chapter contributi...

Representing Childhood and Atrocity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Representing Childhood and Atrocity

Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure with a comprehensible moral and a happy ending is to do a disservice to the victims. Yet to confront children with the fact of widescale violence without resolution is to confront them with realities that may be emotionally disturbing and even damaging. Despite these challenges, however, there exists a considerable body of work for and about children that addresses atrocity. To examine the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity, this collection brings together original essays by an international group of scholars working in the fields of child studies, children's literature, comics studies, education, English literature, and Holocaust, genocide, and memory studies. It covers a broad geographical range and includes works by established authors and emerging voices.

Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-06-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Research on history education and historical thinking is becoming increasingly relevant internationally. The need for a renewal of history education is not only justified by the epistemology of history itself, but also by the demand for a methodological change in education in general, making students active protagonists in the construction of their learning and based on the development of competencies. Further study on the potential use of gamification within social studies and humanities education is required to understand its benefits and challenges. Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education proposes and analyzes gamification as a pedagogical innovation that can enable the renewal of the teaching and learning process of history, facilitating the active learning of historical thinking concepts while influencing students' conceptions of history as a discipline and as a school subject. Covering key topics such as historical thinking, social sciences, video games, and mobile learning, this reference work is ideal for historians, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America

This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America. Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with social tributary practices and projects in the Latin world. As the cyclical crises of capitalism and their resulting inequalities have created proposals of reform and brought them into action, certain shared ideological influences and policies have emerged across these societies. Faced with the interpretative schemes used for the Anglo-Saxon sphere, which have been the usual reference in international research, this volume’s geographical and cultural matrix of analysis helps fill a longstanding gap in this field. The book will be of interest to scholars, educators, and students specialising in the history and political science of the social and solidarity economy sectors, as well as professionals involved in cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and associations.

Textbooks and War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Textbooks and War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-04
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes. It has long been established that history textbooks play a key role in shaping the next generation’s understanding of both past events and the concept of ‘friend’ and ‘foe’. Considering both current and historical textbooks, often through a bi-national comparative approach, the editors and contributors investigate various important aspects of the relationships between textbooks and war, including the role wars play in the creation of national identities (whether the country is on the winning or losing side), the effacement of international wars to highlight a country’s exceptionalism, or the obscuring of intra-national conflict through the ways in which a civil war is portrayed. This pioneering book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of textbooks, educational media and the relationships between curricula and war.

Cultivating Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Cultivating Nature

Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists, politicians, and tourists have made this working landscape a site of ongoing conflict over environmental conservation in Europe, the future of Spain, and Valencian identity. In Cultivating Nature, Sarah Hamilton explores the Albufera’s contested lands and waters, which have supported and been transformed by human activity for a mill...

Conflicto y convivencia en el discurso pedagógico oficial durante el tardofranquismo y la transición democrática española (1965-1982)
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 542

Conflicto y convivencia en el discurso pedagógico oficial durante el tardofranquismo y la transición democrática española (1965-1982)

En el seno del Departamento de Historia de la Educación y Educación Comparada de la UNED se lleva a cabo desde 1992 una amplia investigación sobre los manuales escolares de los siglos XIX y XX —Proyecto MANES—, proyecto de carácter interdisciplinar e interuniversitario en el que colaboran diversas universidades e instituciones españolas, europeas y latinoamericanas. En la actualidad este grupo de investigación está integrado en el Centro de Investigación MANES. Fruto del trabajo de todos estos años son los diversos títulos que han visto la luz en esta colección. La obra Conflicto y convivencia en el discurso pedagógico oficial durante el tardofranquismo y la transición democ...

Gobernar la ciudad
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 353

Gobernar la ciudad

Esta obra propone un recorrido histórico por la gestión de la ciudad abordando la acción de gobierno de los mandatarios franquistas que la dirigieron en los últimos años del régimen. A partir de documentación inédita, la obra reconstruye la biografía y principales hitos de la labor municipal de Miguel Ramón Izquierdo, Vicente López Rosat o Adolfo Rincón de Arellano. ¿Qué les llevó a tomar determinadas decisiones que configuraron la historia de la urbe en épocas posteriores? ¿Qué papel jugaron en la transición a la democracia? o ¿cómo era su relación con sus conciudadanos? Gobernar la ciudad se convirtió en una prioridad para el franquismo en aspectos como el urbanismo, el peso creciente del asociacionismo vecinal o la gestión de las fiestas y conmemoraciones cívicas. Una labor política que permitirá entender, gracias a este volumen, la larga duración de la dictadura y también las bases sociales sobre las que se configuró.