Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education

This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. The editors provide a comprehensive overview through thirty-eight chapters divided into four parts: a) Historical Culture and Public Uses of History; b) The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of Postcolonial Societies; c) Reflections on History Learning and Teaching; d) Educational Resources: Curricula, Textbooks and New Media. This unique text integrates contributions of researchers from history, education, collective memory, museum studies, heritage, social and cognitive psychology, and other social sciences, stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue. Contributors come from various countries of Northern and Southern America, Europe and Asia, providing an international perspective that does justice to the complexity of this field of study. The Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education provides state-of-the-art research, focussing on how citizens and societies make sense of the past through different ways of representing it.

Mario Carretero is Professor at Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, and Researcher at FLACSO, Argentina. He has carried out an extensive research on history education. His last two books are History Education and the Construction of National Identities (2012) (co-ed.) and Constructing Patriotism (funded by the Guggenheim Foundation) (2011).
Stefan Berger is Director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Foundation Library of the Rhur University-Bochum, Germany. His research interests are modern and contemporary european history, especially of Germany and Britain, comparative labour history, nationalism and history of historiography. He has published The Contested Nation (2011) and Nationalizing the Past (2010).
Maria Grever is Professor of History and Theory and Director of the Center for Historical Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has published widely on canonization processes, historical culture, collective memory and identity, heritage and history education. Currently she leads the research program War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts (2015-2019).