We have included in the volume all except two conference papers: Cinthia Salinas
(University of Texas, US) published her conference paper in the International Journal of …

This chapter examines history education research and practice in selected European and
Asian countries. We draw on research literature from European (United Kingdom, Germany …

Untouchable migrants made up a substantial proportion of Indian labour migration into
Singapore in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, they were subject to …

Over the last three decades, research in history education has led to the development of
more relevant, student-centred approaches to history curricula. Some researchers have …

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the
history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the …

This chapter examines how the teaching and learning of history in Singapore have evolved
since colonial times and throughout Singapore's transformation into a modern …

Historically, the formation of new nation-states has involved the inculcation, primarily
through schools, of a shared sense of national identity, and, in the last few decades, many …

For many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan is an ex-foe, and in many cases, strong
anti-Japanese sentiment persists in the memory of wartime experience, especially the …

Much research work on history education in recent decades has focused on classroom
practices that support active learning in history where students interpret and construct …

This article contributes to debates on how the history curriculum should be organised (ie,
thematically, or chronologically). It also contributes to the limited empirical research that …