Contemporary Public Debates Over History Education (Hc)

A volume in International Review of History EducationSeries Editors Peter Lee Rosalyn Ashby Stuart FosterThe 6th book of the International Review of History Education Series Contemporary public debates over historyeducation presents public debates on history education as they appear in 14 different areas of the world inAsia Europe North and South America. In alphabetical order: in Brazil by Maria Auxiliadora Schmidt andTânia Braga Garcia in Canada by Peter Seixas in England by Rosalyn Ashby and Christopher Edwards inGreece by Irene Nakou and Eleni Apostolidou in Israel by Eyal Naveh in Japan and South Korea byYonghee Suh and Makito Yurita in Northern Ireland by Alan McCully in Portugal by Isabel Barca in Quebec(Canada) by Jean-Francois Cardin in Singapore by Suhaimi Afandi and Mark Baildon in Spain by LisCercadillo in Turkey by Dursun Dilek and Gülcin (Yapici) Dilek and in the United States by Peter Stearns.By illuminating common trends national peculiarities and differences this collective book furtherenriches our knowledge about crucial issues concerning public perspectives over history education in diverse parts of the world. It opens new questionsand issues to be further investigated by all who are interested in this field in terms of its historical educational global national ethnic cultural socialand political dimensions in the current transitional and multicultural environment.This international dialogue therefore addresses historians history education researchers university professors school teachers policy makerspublishers parents and all those who insist that history education is very important especially if it enables young people to orientate in the present andthe future in historical terms.