IICSAL   26686
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES SOCIALES DE AMERICA LATINA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
National identities in the making and alternative pathways of history education
Autor/es:
CARRETERO, MARIO; VAN ALPHEN, FLOOR; PARELLADA, CRISTIAN
Libro:
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Referencias:
Año: 2018; p. 424 - 442
Resumen:
History education powerfully influences the construction of national identities through so called myths of origin, taught and subsequently appropriated by students, which play an important role in most educational systems and practices. This chapter is concerned with how this happens. For this purpose a number of studies will be analyzed focusing on the interdisciplinary relation between a sociocultural framework and research in learning and representing history. Most of the latter has been carried out in the field of history education, analyzing textbooks and curricula, and in a cognitive, developmental and instructional psychological vein. However, more recently social and cultural psychological studies have also made significant contributions. This chapter aims at developing a reflective view on what history education could offer as an area of interest for sociocultural research, particularly through the analysis of two cultural tools employed in constituting national identities by way of their historical contents. Both master narratives and historical maps are symbolic supporters of the national identity construction process, enabling the appropriation of particular representations of history by students from a very young age in both formal and informal learning environments. Even though there are various studies about the master narrative tool (Alridge, 2006; Straub, 2005), work on historical maps is still very scarce. Apart from reflecting on this pathway of history education, mainly concerned with making national identities, this chapter proposes that alternative pathways could be developed aimed at other historical contents and considering the student as more than just a national subject, thus forming a new and dynamic field of research open to sociocultural investigation.