Re-imagining the Teaching of European History: Promoting Civic Education and Historical Consciousness - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032294272 ISBN 13: 9781032294278

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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 European curriculum such as violence and armed conflict, social inequality, gender equality, the technological revolution, and religion.

Ultimately, this volume promotes criticality, civic engagement, and reflection on social issues, thereby prompting methodological change in the teaching of history as we know it. It will appeal to researchers and students of history education, democratic education, and citizenship education, as well as teacher educators and trainee teachers in history.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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About the Author

Cosme Jesús Gómez Carrasco is Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences Teaching, University of Murcia, Spain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032294272
• ISBN 13: 9781032294278
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Gómez Carrasco Cosme Jesús