Chapter 1: The Psycho-Social Role of Past Chapter 2: Nature of History and Historical Understanding Chapter 3: Patterns in Development of Historical Understanding Chapter 4: Historical Understanding, Community History and Identity Chapter 5: National Narratives and Marginalised Community Histories Chapter 6: Learning and Teaching History at School
Biography
Shalini Dixit, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India. Prior to joining NIAS, she taught at the Department of Psychology and Elementary Education at different colleges in the University of Delhi, India. She earned a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and received the NCERT Doctoral Fellowship for her PhD research. In 2013 her doctoral work on the understanding of History was awarded the D Sinha Best Doctoral Dissertation Award by the National Academy of Psychology, India. Her research interests include cultural and cognitive processes, critical aspects of educational psychology, and social psychology. Her primary area of research has been the understanding of history and psychological responses to marginalised histories.
