1st Edition

Global Perspectives on the Role of Dialogue in History Education Socio-cultural, Psychological, and Digital Dimensions

Edited By Mario Carretero, Everardo Perez-Manjarrez Copyright 2025
238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Providing the first volume-length exploration of the role that dialogue can play in history education classrooms, this book explores the socio-cultural, psychological, and digital dimensions of dialogic practice to promote research into historical thinking, historical consciousness, and critical thinking in educational settings. This book’s novel approach is in its analysis of dialogical... Read more

Introduction - Dialogue as a necessary challenge for history education.
Mario Carretero and Everardo Perez-Manjarrez

Part I.  Dialogue on rival and silenced stories

1.    Collective Memory and History School Textbooks: The Cases of Authoritarianism and Intractable Conflict
Daniel Bar-Tal

2. Dialogue between two conflicting historical Narratives: Palestine, Israel, and the PRIME Dual Historical Narratives project.
Sami Adwan  

3.    Contested History Teaching and Dialogue in divided Cyprus
Charis Psaltis, Meltem Onurkan-Samani, Marina Kyprianou, and Hasan Samani

4.    When the Subaltern Cannot Speak: Teaching about and through Historical Silence
Tadashi Dozono

Part II. Dialogical activities in the classroom

5.    Dialogue as shared historical inquiry: reflections on research into educational dialogue in history education
Carla van Boxtel and Jannet van Drie  

6.    Toward a Definition of Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Argumentation in the History Classroom
Chrysi Rapanta, María Paula Pereira, and Fabrizio Macagno

7.    Mapping Historical Discussions: Effects of Personal Investment and Issue Type on the Flow of Discourse
Eric B. Freedman

8.    Enhancing dialogic practices in social studies education in Norway: students’ and teachers’ perspectives
David-Alexandre Wagner, Åse Kari H. Wagner, and Alexandre Dessingué

Part III. Digital media and historical dialogue

9.    Fostering reflective dialogue on the difficult past and present of religious diversity in Europe. A docutube methodology
Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse

10. Teaching recent historical conflicts through dialogical controversies and documentary theater
Mario Carretero, María Cantabrana, and Alicia Barreiro 

11. Intercultural Historical Dialogue: Advancing History Education Through Peer Online Learning
Everardo Perez-Manjarrez and Liz Dawes Duraisingh

 

Biography

Mario Carretero is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain, and a researcher of Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)-Argentina.

Everardo Perez-Manjarrez is Professor of History at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid, Spain, and Harvard Graduate School of Education Visiting Scholar.