Collective Memory, History Education, and Historical Consciousness

TitleCollective Memory, History Education, and Historical Consciousness
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsPeter Seixas
JournalHistorically Speaking
Volume7
Issue2
Pagination17-19
ISSN1944-6438
Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Peter Seixas Peter Seixas is professor and Canada Research Chair in the department of curriculum studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness and is editor of Theorizing Historical Consciousness (University of Toronto Press, 2004). Footnotes 1. Nancy Wood, Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe (Berg Publishers, 1999), 1. 2. See Kerwin Lee Klein, "On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse," Representations 69 (2000): 127-150; James Wertsch, Voices of Collective Remembering (Cambridge University Press, 2002); and Michael Kammen, "Review of Iwona Irwin-Zarecka's Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamic of Collective Memory," History and Theory 35 (1995): 245-261. 3. See Samuel S. Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Temple University Press, 2001); Peter Stearns, Peter Seixas, and Samuel S. Wineburg, eds., Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives (New York University Press, 2000). 4. Herbert Gutman, "Historical Consciousness in Contemporary America," in Herbert Gutman. ed., Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class, ed. Ira Berlin (Pantheon, 1987). 5. Hans-Georg Gadamer, "The Problem of Historical Consciousness," in Paul Rabinow and William M. Sullivan, eds., Interpretive Social Science: A Second Look (University of California Press, 1987), 89. 6. Ibid., 90. 7. Contributors to Theorizing Historical Consciousness not discussed in this essay include Chris Lorenz, Mark Salber Phillips, Tony Taylor, John Torpey, and James Wertsch. Copyright © 2005 The Historical Society Project MUSE® - View Citation MLA APA Chicago Endnote Peter Seixas. "Collective Memory, History Education, and Historical Consciousness." Historically Speaking 7.2 (2005): 17-19. Project MUSE. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. . Seixas, P.(2005). Collective Memory, History Education, and Historical Consciousness. Historically Speaking 7(2), 17-19. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved January 26, 2013, from Project MUSE database. Peter Seixas. "Collective Memory, History Education, and Historical Consciousness." Historically Speaking 7, no. 2 (2005): 17-19. http://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed January 26, 2013). TY - JOUR T1 - Collective Memory, History Education, and Historical Consciousness A1 - Peter Seixas JF - Historically Speaking VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 17 EP - 19 PY - 2005 PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press SN - 1944-6438 UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/historically_speaking/v007/7.2.seixas.html N1 - Volume 7, Number 2, November/December 2005 ER - ...

URLhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/historically_speaking/v007/7.2.seixas.html
DOI10.1353/hsp.2005.0046