Between non-human and individual agents: the attribution of agency in chapters on the Cold War in Flemish history textbooks.

Autor/in	Nieuwenhuyse, Karel van
Titel	Between non-human and individual agents: the attribution of agency in chapters on the Cold War in Flemish history textbooks.
Quelle	Aus: Christophe, Barbara (Hrsg.); Gautschi, Peter (Hrsg.); Thorp, Robert (Hrsg.): The Cold War in the classroom. International perspectives on textbooks and memory practices. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019) S. 159-181 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Palgrave studies in educational media
Beigaben	Tabellen; Literaturangaben S. 178-180
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-030-11998-0; 978-3-030-11999-7
DOI	10.1007/978-3-030-11999-7_8
Schlagwörter	Methode; Geschichtsunterricht; Methode; Schulbuch; Flandern; Ost-West-Konflikt; Schulbuch; Geschichtsunterricht; Ost-West-Konflikt; Flandern
Abstract	Van Nieuwenhuyse, utilising content and discourse analysis, compares chapters on the Cold War in four different Flemish textbooks used to teach twelfth grade, examining both how they portray the Soviet Union and the USA and which groups they assign agency to in this period (from non-human actors, such as nations, to individuals). Students, Van Nieuwenhuyse argues, must understand the importance of agency in history and in their daily lives, a significance which they can recognise through being taught history. The chapter proposes that an education in history which emphasises nuance, resists homogenisation and explicitly highlights different historiographical approaches to the Cold War in turn encourages students to realise the importance of individual and collective action in the past and future.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2020/2