History as Text: Narrative Theory and History

Kellner, Hans

doi:10.4135/9781446247563.n12

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“…9 A narrative consists of actors and instances of agency (for example, individuals or collectivities) who follow a "plot" of (chrono)logically connected events. 10 The configuration of time could be regarded as an element in forming the plot of the narrative. 11 This configuration brings together subjectively experienced time (experiences and interpretations) and the more objective chronology of events established in time.…”

Section: Narratives Of the National Past And Multiperspectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Narratives and Multiperspectivity in Dutch Secondary School History Textbooks

Kropman

Boxtel

Drie

2020

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society

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School history textbooks provide an important source of information for learners of history. Textbook narratives of a nation’s past often present a limited frame of reference, which impedes the aim of teaching history from multiple perspectives. This article examines the representation of the Dutch Revolt in two Dutch and two Flemish history textbooks. By taking sentences as our unit of analysis, we analyzed narrative elements and metaphors, which informed us about the level of multiperspectivity in these narratives. We found that Dutch textbooks, in contrast to Flemish textbooks, create their emplotment of the narrative of the Dutch Revolt by focusing on the first ten years of the conflict and mostly lack multiperspectivity. We hope that the insights generated by this analysis may inform textbook authors who seek to do justice to multiple perspectives.

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Section: Narratives Of the National Past And Multiperspectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Narratives and Multiperspectivity in Dutch Secondary School History Textbooks

Kropman

Boxtel

Drie

2020

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society

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“…To teachers and students, these texts are the main source of information (Foster, 2011). In a narrative, the subject or agents act upon a "plot" of (chrono)logically connected events (Rigney, 2012). For example, the narrative of Russia's past may be characterized by the expulsion of foreign invaders (Wertsch, 2012).…”

Section: Multiperspectivity In the History Classroom: The Role Of Narmentioning

confidence: 99%