Reckoning with the Past

Teaching History in Northern Ireland

Margaret Eastman Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2004
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-0798-0 (ISBN)

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With Northern Ireland as her focal point, Margaret E. Smith examines how group narratives are used in the field of history education to address both future conflict prevention and post-conflict rebuilding. Smith explores how divided societies can use educational textbook reform to reconcile a narrative that treats shared group histories as mutually exclusive. Northern Ireland is an ideal case study, in part, because they have been working on revising history teaching in schools, museums, and local history societies since the 1970s. Learning from this process, Smith encourages us to acknowledge that societal change does not occur over night—Smith proposes a stage theory of incremental change—and a vision for building educational reform directly into brokered peace treaties. This synthetic approach recognizes how difficult it can be to work with groups that feel threatened by difference but also underscores the importance of finding practical ways to move two conflicted groups to a place where their mentalities can be intertwined into a joint story.

Margaret Eastman Smith is Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University.

Chapter 1 Preface: Intervening in the Cycle of Conflict
Part 2 The Broader Perspective
Chapter 3 Nationalism and History Teaching
Chapter 4 The Tenacious Hold of Historical Memory
Part 5 Northern Ireland
Chapter 6 A Brief History of the Northern Ireland Conflict
Chapter 7 Narratives, Explanations, and Intervention Strategies
Chapter 8 Education in Ireland and Northern Ireland: 1537-1972
Chapter 9 The Education System Responds to the Troubles
Part 10 Partisan Prescriptions
Chapter 11 Domination and Empowerment
Part 12 Cosmopolitan Prescriptions
Chapter 13 History as Process
Chapter 14 The Common History Curriculum and its Discontents
Chapter 15 Fragmenting Rigid Identifications
Chapter 16 Education for Citizenship
Part 17 Neo-Pluralist Prescriptions
Chapter 18 Parity of Esteem
Chapter 19 Frontier of Discovery

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.12.2004
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 238 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-7391-0798-4 / 0739107984
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-0798-0 / 9780739107980
Zustand	Neuware