New release: Whose History? Essays in Perception

John Catt is pleased to announce the publication of Whose History? Essays in Perception, edited by Dr Caroline Ellwood.

This excellent collection of essays considers perceptions of historic and current events from different global viewpoint and considers the implications for teaching history – particularly for teachers in international schools.

The preface is written by Dr Siva Kumari, Director General of the International Baccalaureate, who writes: "I’m pleased that this book raises and addresses important questions about how history is perceived not only through aspects of historiography but by teachers deciding how and what to teach in this modern world.

"This is a topic which resonates very strongly with me as today, more than ever, students and teachers should be better able to address questions of perspective with more original sources at their fingertips."

This is the chapter list:

Part One: Of historians and history

Whose language? Malcolm Pritchard
Whose nation? Caroline Ellwood
History as a personal memory, Walther Hetzer
Whose sources? Colonial border manipulations and the poverty of archival 
records in Ikaleland, south east Yorubaland, Nigeria, Olukoya Ogen
Whose evidence? Whose guilt? Case study World War One, Caroline Ellwood
Coming to terms with the past: Germany’s changing view of the Second World War, Roger Moorhouse
Whose painting? Making the invisible visible, Richard Caston

Part two: Whose history do we teach?

Whose culture? Teaching history as an inter-cultural experience, Terry Haywood
Whose nation? National and international interpretations, Caroline Ellwood
The Cambridge approach to supporting history instruction 
and assessment in schools, Rebecca Conway & Jack Higginson
Dangerous interpretations in post conflict history teaching, 
Paul Regan
Past present: drama and theatre strategies for bringing the 
past to life in the history classroom, Dinos Aristidou
Whose methodology? Chronology versus theme, Malcolm Davis
Teaching history in a globalised world: the challenge of diversity in Finnish education and teacher education, Rauni Räsänen
Is the past such a foreign country? Rediscovering history as a way to understanding the micropolitics of the present. International 
schools and the importance of historical context, Richard Caffyn
Epilogue: the teacher’s role

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