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Educating Britain? Political Literacy and the Construction of National History
Despite the reflexive nature of historical enquiry and the degree of national interconnectness now theorized by historians in the United Kingdom, education debates over history teaching in Britain often yield a comforting defence of Britain's 'island story'. The singular 'island story' is an economical narrative device favoured by politicians and further mediated through newspapers which profit from such national cryogenics. Maintenance of a currency, or crisis, of Britishness can also be contrasted with the relative absence of longitudinal or comparative enquiry into identity and school curricula. In addition, the teaching of states, connections and post-sovereign communities is largely under-theorized, potentially contributing to the sterility of future debates about citizenship, agency and Britainâs wider political reach. It is argued here that the public framing of history as nationhood and the underdevelopment of childrenâs political literacy are mutually reinforcing conditions by which the state has constructed a stabilizing, yet shifting presence of the ânationalâ
Jogo, mimese e infùncia: o papel do jogar infantil nos processos de construção do self
Paula Fass Interview, Paula Fass and Christina Maslach, "Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s."
"Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s." Interviews with Berkeley's pioneering women professors, Berkeley, CA. Conducted 2019-2023.
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Paula Fass Interview, Paula Fass and Christina Maslach, "Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s."
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"Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s." Interviews with Berkeley's pioneering women professors, Berkeley, CA. Conducted 2019-2023.
Interviews Conducted by Paula Fass and Christina Maslach; Introduction by Fass and Mashlach [505 pages]Interviewees: Clair Brown, Beth Burnside, Carol Christ, Carol Clover, Galen Cranz, Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiona Doyle, Paula Fass, Catherine Gallagher, Jewell Gibbs, Susan Graham, Leanne Hinton, Judith Klinman, Robin Lakeoff, Christina Maslach, Mary Ann Mason, Susan Matisoff, Karlene Roberts, Marjorie Shultz, Eleanor Swift, Ruth Tringham, Bonnie Wade, Marvalee Wake, Rhona Weinstei