Full Description
As issues of history, memory, and identity collide with increasing frequency and intensity in the classroom and society, the timing is ideal to investigate the impact of these forces on twenty-first-century students. Relying on the theory of historical consciousness, this book presents the results of a comprehensive study conducted with over 600 French Canadian students that examines their narrative views of the collective past. The authors offer new evidence on how young citizens from various regions and ethnocultural groups in Quebec and Ontario think about their national history and what impact education, historical culture, and the "real-life" curriculum of meaningful experiences have on the formation of narration, identity, and historical consciousness.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Narrative Orientations
2. History, Territory, and the Nation
3. Gender and Language
4. Collective Identity
5. Narrative Competence
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
