History Education, Citizenship, and State Formation

Abstract

This chapter has two main aims. The first is to establish the close historical and ideological relationship between the construction of nation-states, the development of the profession of history, and the emergence of modern schooling systems, all of which were evolving during the "long nineteenth century" in Europe. The focus is particularly on history education given its citizen-shaping agenda of forging national identity and shaping historical consciousness. The second aim is to reanimate debates about the role of history education today. This proceeds by arguing that a shift in the experience and understanding of temporality which has occurred in the post-Cold War era has triggered a crisis of legitimacy for the nation-state, which has generated two related responses in Western democratic nation-states since 1989: an increased reflection and attachment to national identity and an impetus to reckon with the problematic past. Here, history education has come to be positioned as both a prominent target of memory contests, as well as a solution and tool of justice and reconciliation,

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“…Por otro lado, el autor ofrece una perspectiva dinámica al diferenciar ya no conceptos sino procesos localizados en tiempos históricos precisos: hay educación y construcción de nación, y educación y construcción de estado antes de la Revolución Francesa, pero solo educación y construcción de estado nación después de ella. Agrega luego, en coincidencia con Keynes (2019), que, más allá de diferencias en tiempos y espacios, en todos los casos se aprecia la instrumentalización de las estructuras estatales que promueven un ideal particular de la nación. En términos de educación: el estado organiza rituales y educación que fabrican a los ciudadanos de mentalidad nacional culturalmente deseados.…”