Description |
1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) |
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text file |
Note |
Revision of author's thesis. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265). |
Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: Challenges of compulsory history in the Australian school curriculum. Compulsory history: the issues confronting teachers -- Student engagement through historical narratives -- Pedagogical dimensions of historical novels and historical literacy -- Part II: Understanding the genre of historical novels. Defining the historical novel -- Increase of history as a subject for novels: memory and the context of interpretation -- 'The plot against the plot': page-turners for students -- Counterfactual histories and the nature of history -- Alternate histories in the classroom -- 'Caught in time's cruel machinery': time-slip novels in the history lesson -- Part III: Deconstructing the historical novel. Whose history? historical fiction and the discipline of history in the classroom: varying views of the past -- Understanding the past through historical fiction -- Unpacking historical novels for their historicity: historical facts and historical agency -- Key themes in Australian history and their reflection in historical novels -- Conclusion. |
Summary |
"Whose History? examines the traditions in Australian historical fiction, and ponders how Australian historical novels can engage teachers and student teachers."--Publisher's description. |
Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
Subject |
History -- Study and teaching -- Australia.
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History -- Study and teaching. |
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Australia. |
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Historical fiction, Australian -- Study and teaching -- Australia.
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Historical fiction, Australian. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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ISBN |
9781922064509 (ebook) |
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1922064505 |
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781922064516 (paperback) |
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9781922064516 |
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1922064513 |
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