Teaching and Learning the Difficult Past

Magdalena H. Gross is a Senior Research Associate at the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) at Stanford University, USA.Luke Terra is Director of Community Engaged Learning and Research at Stanford University, USA.

• Foreword Simone SchweberIntroductionMagdalena H. Gross and Luke TerraPart I Theorizing the teaching and learning of difficult histories Teaching difficult histories: The need for a dynamic research tradition Keith Barton Contextual Gatekeeping: Teacher decision-making in multiple and overlapping milieusThomas Misco Sublime Understanding: Cultivating the Emotional Past Cam ScribnerPart II Teaching difficult histories4. An Inquiry-Based Curriculum Design for Difficult HistoryBradley Fogo and Joel Breakstone Ethical Judgments about the Difficult Past: Observations from the Classroom Lindsay Gibson When Past and Present Collide: Dilemmas in Teaching the History of the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictSivan Zakai Warts, Polyps, Blisters and All? Problems in Learning to Teach a Provocative Past in a Troubling WayBruce VanSledright and Sebastian Burkholdt Güeras, Indigenas, y Negros: A Framework for Teaching Mexican American Racial/Ethnic HistoriesMaribel Santiago Betrayal, Conversion, and Complicity in the Middle East Classroom Taymiya R. Zaman Part III Learning difficult histories Soft or Hard Biculturalism and Beyond: How New Zealand Adolescents Construct Contemporary Significance of the Nation’s Founding DocumentTerrie Epstein and Michael Harcourt History Education, National Identity, and the Road to BrexitEleni Karayianni and Stuart Foster "I need to hear a good ending":How students cope with historical violence. Jeremy Jimenez The Myth of "Black Confederates": Beliefs of Students and Implications for History EducatorsGabriel A. Reich and Amy Corning "We’ve Been Screwed": French Québecers and Their PastJocelyn Létourneau Student Motivation to Confront Difficult Local HistoryRob Lucas Learning History Through Culture: The Krakow Jewish FestivalAri Y. Kelman "Still Racist, Just Less Outward About It:" Secondary Students Narrate Connections Between Slavery and RacismJustine Lee Sweetening the Past: Selling Heritage at Knott’s Berry Farm Harper KeenanAfterwordSam WineburgAppendices