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The Purposes of Historical Canons in Multicultural History Education
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Wouter Smets – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
National canons of history sparked intense debate among historians over the last years, history educators have regularly shown concerns regarding these canons. The main arguments are that history is instrumentalized for political purposes, and that canons are incompatible with multiculturality. In this study, the cases of the Netherlands and…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, History Instruction, Role of Education, Foreign Countries