New histories for a new state : the historical narratives of textbooks and students in Northern Ireland
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The three articles of this dissertation explore how the past is represented in history classrooms in Northern Ireland, and the historical understandings students develop as a result. Taken together, these articles help us to better understand the complicated position that narrative holds in the history classroom. When history first appeared on the school timetable in the UK, as elsewhere, its purpose was to communicate a shared national story to new generations. In recent decades, the centrality of the nation in historiography and history education came under attack, both from historians who wrote outside the national mode, and from educationists who argued for greater attention in schools to history as a form of knowledge rather than a body of content. These shifts appear in the changing content and structure of history textbooks in Northern Ireland, which abandon traditional narrative accounts of history in favor of inquiries into significant and controversial events. Students, for their part, also struggle to construct historical accounts that link events together into a coherent whole, and when they do often rely on sectarian templates encountered outside the school. Young people in Northern Ireland encounter multiple and competing versions of the national past. The challenge for history instruction is to provide students with the tools to adjudicate among these competing claims, and the skills to construct coherent and persuasive narratives that explain historical change.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Terra, Luke |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Thesis advisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Thesis advisor | Labaree, David F, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Wineburg, Samuel S |
| Advisor | Labaree, David F, 1947- |
| Advisor | Wineburg, Samuel S |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Luke Terra. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Luke Benjamin Terra
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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