196 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 366 6
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 366 4
February 2007

It is no accident that new regimes rewrite their history books. This collection by academics across Europe explores the relationship between models of history teaching, how they influence the building of collective and individual identities and civic education and, in particular, the impact on conflict resolution and intercultural education. The theoretical focus is on historical consciousness; the geographical focus is Europe and its Mediterranean neighbours, from Sweden to Palestine/Israel.

This is volume 7 in the acclaimed series European Issues in Children's Identity and Citizenship, published with the European Thematic Network Programme CiCe. Timely and valuable for sociologists, educators and policy makers, it examines the development and change in young people's socialisation in Europe and beyond as they come to understand their societies and those of their neighbours.