Inter- and Intracultural Differences in European History Textbooks

The Editor: Carol Morgan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath (and has taught and researched also at Durham University, the Open University and the University of East Anglia). She has written numerous articles and books on language and culture, foreign language teaching and professional development including Teaching-and-Learning Language-and-Culture (1996, with M. Byram) and Teaching Foreign Language and Culture from a Dialogic Perspective (2000, with A.Cain).

• Contents: Carol Morgan: Textbook Analysis and Cultural Comparison – Kate Hawkey/Carol Morgan: Teaching ‘The Romans’ in an English Primary School Context – Albane Cain: The Discourse of French History Texts: Structure, Tasks and Cultural Priorities – Eva Trumpp: Multiperspectivity in German History Textbooks: From Comprehension and Critical Thinking to Process Orientation and Intercultural Learning. A Case History from Rhineland Palatinate (RLP) – Cristina Allemann-Ghionda: Historical Knowledge for Everybody or for the Happy Few? Teaching ‘The Romans’ in North Rhine Westphalia (Germany) – Agostino Portera: The Romans in School Textbooks in Italian Primary Schools: An Investigation of Prejudices, Stereotypes and Intercultural Pedagogy – Elisabeth Fattinger: Austrian History Curricula and Textbooks: Intracultural Discontinuities – Fionnuala Waldron: ‘A Nation’s Schoolbooks Wield a Great Power’: How the Romans are Depicted in Irish History Textbooks – Carol Morgan: Inter- and Intracultural Differences in European History Textbooks.