Beyond the Canon: History for the Twenty-first Century

by M. Grever (Editor), S. Stuurman (Editor)

Overview

'Beyond the Canon' deals with recent politicized processes of canonization and its implications for historical culture in a globalizing and postcolonial world. The volume discusses the framing and transmission of historical knowledge and its consequences for the construction of narratives and the teaching of history in multicultural environments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230516502
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/11/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

MARIA GREVER Professor of Theory and Methodology of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands HENDRIK HENRICHS Senior Lecturer in Cultural History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands ED JONKER Associate Professor of Historiography and Theory of History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands PETER LEE Senior Lecturer in History in Education, University of London, UK SUSAN LEGÊNE Head of the Curatorial Department of the KIT Tropenmuseum and Professor of Dutch Cultural History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands GEERTJE MAK Assistant professor of Gender History at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands CIRAJ RASSOOL Associate Professor of History, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa KEES RIBBENS Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands PETER SEIXAS Professor and Canada Research Chair in Education, the University of British Columbia, Canada PETER N. STEARNS Provost of George Mason University, USA ALEX VAN STIPRIAAN Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History and Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands SIEP STUURMAN Jean Monnet Chair of European History and European Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands NICOLE TUTIAUX-GUILLON University Professor in the University of Lille 3 - Charles De Gaulle, France BERTEKE WAALDIJK Professor of Language and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond the Canon: History in a Globalizing World; S.Stuurman & M.Grever PART 1: THE FRAMING OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE Who Needs a Canon?; P.Seixas Plurality, Narrative and the Historical Canon; M.Grever From National Canon to Historical Literacy; P.Lee 'Another Brick in the Wall'. Historical Culture and History Teaching; K.Ribbens PART 2: FOUNDATIONS AND REVISIONS OF THE WESTERN CANON Can the Enlightenment provide a Canon for Modernity?; S.Stuurman The Canon after the Crisis of the Humanities; E.Jonker Rethinking the Nation in German Historical Museums; H.Henrichs Moving History: How Gender has touched the Canon; G.Mak PART 3: TRANSMISSION OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE IN MULTICULTURAL SETTINGS Heritage Museums and the Transformation of South African History; C.Rassool Internationalizing the Classic United States History Survey; P.Stearns French History Confronts the Multicultural; N.Tutiaux Decolonization and the Canon; S.Legêne & B.Waaldijk Disrupting the Canon: The Case of Slavery; A.van Stipriaan LuIscius