Teaching History in a multicultural society – trends and tendencies in Nordic schools

Meeting the history and heritage of the majority culture in a pluralist society might, at worst, mean giving up the control of one’s own past and assimilating into a new ’master narrative’. By re-defining history as a school subject, putting at its core not a set narrative of the past but the cognit...

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Main Author: KG Hammarlund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2015-03-01
Series:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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Online Access:http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-10-no-2-2015/81-conference-paper/535-teaching-history-in-a-multicultural-society-trends-and-tendencies-in-nordic-schools