History Education at the Edge of the Nation

Andrea Di Michele is Associater Professor at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Piero S. Colla is Adjunct Professor of North European Political Models at Strasbourg University, France.

• Introduction.- Part I: Identity Politics, Educational Governance and History Curriculum in Border Areas.- 1. A Nation-building Tool under Siege: Regional Revival, European Integration and History Teaching in Western Europe after 1989.- 2. History at School in South Tyrol: From Identity Tool for the "small homeland" to a Contribution to Reconciliation among Linguistic Groups.- 3. A History Curriculum for Luxembourgish Schools. Experiments, Debates and Decisions in the 1950s-1960s.- 4. Teaching History to Children in the Schools of Valle d'Aosta.- Part II: Competing Narratives in History Schoolbooks and Teaching Set-up.- 5. Local and National History in Schoolbooks in South Tyrol from the End of WW2 to the Present.- 6. The History of Alsace in Schoolbooks After 1945.- 7. Across Italian Oriental Border: National Minorities and History Teaching.- Part III: Managing Complexity and Multiperspectivity in History Classrooms.- 8. Teaching Saami Pasts and Presents in Contemporary Swedish Classrooms.- 9. Nation and Narration in School Examination Curricula in England and Scotland - a Comparative Analysis of How Each Country Represents the Other.- 10. History Teaching in the Danish-German Border Region.- 11. Diverse Histories and Practices of Saami Education.- 12. To What extent are Language Education and History Education synonyms in Alsace?.

“The cast of contributors for this book is quite intimidating and mouth-watering since their biographies, though brief, read almost like a Who is Who in History Education in Europe! All 17 contributors possess colourful qualifications on the teaching and learning of history … . It leaves any reader looking forward to delve into the contents of the book! … The book is of great service to the history teaching and learning constituency!” (Walter Sengai, Yesterday & Today, Issue 30, December, 2023)