Historical Justice and History Education

Mati Keynes is a Doctoral Researcher at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.  Henrik Åström Elmersjö is Associate Professor of History and Education at the Department of Education, Umeå University, Sweden. Daniel Lindmark is Professor of History and Education at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. Björn Norlin is Associate Professor of History and Education at the Department of Education, Umeå University, Sweden.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Connecting Historical Justice and History Education; Matilda Keynes, Henrik Åström Elmersjö, Daniel Lindmark and Björn Norlin.- Part I: State-Sponsored Processes and Education.- Chapter 2. Recontextualizing historical injustice into education: The relationship between a White Paper and a textbook on the abuse of the Roma in Swedish history; Malin Arvidsson, Henrik Åström Elmersjö.- Chapter 3. Taking responsibility for the past: Theoretical and educational considerations, illustrated by South African experience; Sirkka Ahonen.- Chapter 4. Education and truth commissions: Patterns, possibilities and implications for historical justice; Julia Paulson, Michelle J. Bellino.- Part II: Historical Justice in Public History Spaces.- Chapter 5. The Hanaoka Incident and Practices of Local History and Memory Making in Northern Japan; Erik Ropers.- Chapter 6. Historical narratives and civic subjectification inthe aftermath of conflict; Daniela Romero-Amaya.- Chapter 7. Generating and Popularising Historical Knowledge in a Reconciliation Pro-cess: The Case of the Church of Sweden and the Sami; Björn Norlin, Daniel Lindmark.- Chapter 8. The role of commemoration in history and heritage: the legacy of the World War One Engagement Centres; Nicola Gauld, Ian Grosvenor.- Chapter 9. 9.Challenging ‘comfort women’ discourse: rethinking intersections of historical justice and history education; Anna-Karin Eriksson.- Chapter 10. Ethics and historical justice; Göran Collste.- Part III: Educational Materials: Textbooks, Curricula, Policy.- Chapter 11. Textbook Revisions as Educational Atonement? Possibilities and challenges of history education as a means to historical justice; Eleni Christodoulou.- Chapter 12. Redressing historical wrongs or replicating settler colonialism? Social studies curriculum reform in Canada; James Miles.-Chapter 13. Narrative Justice? Ten tools to deconstruct narratives about violent pasts; Angela Bermudez.- Chapter 14. History education, transitional justice and politics of reconciliation: Multi- and univocality around violent pasts in South African and Rwandan textbooks; Denise Bentrovato.- Part IV: Pedagogy, Teachers, and Students.- Chapter 15. Practicing reconciliation in a Canadian book club; Jonathan Anuik.- Chapter 16. Developing historical consciousness for social cohesion: How South African students learn to construct the relationship between past and present; Natasha Robinson.- Chapter 17. Historical justice and the Holocaust in history education; Andy Pearce, Stuart Foster.- Chapter 18. Do teachers care about historical justice? Teaching about the Holocaust, genocide, and colonialism in England; Heather Mann.- Chapter 19. Political good-will, moral lessons, historical justice? Upper secondary school students onthe motives and effects of historical apologies; Jan Löfström.