Negotiating Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in History Education

Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating Ethnic Diversity With National Identity in History Education.- Part I: The Politics of Reconciliation and History Education in Post-conflict Contexts.- Chapter 2: Peace Through History Education: The Activities of UNESCO, the Georg-Eckert-Institut and the Council of Europe.- Chapter 3: Cure or Disease? History Education and the Politics of Reconciliation in East Asia.- Chapter 4: Unity in Diversity or Political Separation Driven by Cultural Difference? Textbook Revision in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Chapter 5: Curricular Decentralisation as an Antidote to 'Burmanisation'? Including Ethnic Minorities' Histories in Myanmar's Government Schools (2011-20).- Part II: Negotiating the History of Minorities in European Settler Countries and a Former Empire.- Chapter 6: Portrayals of Ethnic Minorities, Migration and Empire in English History Textbooks (1920-2020).- Chapter 7: History Education and Historical Thinking in Multicultural Contexts: A Canadian Perspective.- Chapter 8: National Identity in the History Curriculum in Australia: Educating for Citizenship.- Chapter 9: Potentially Transformative: Aligning Maori Perspectives, Difficult Histories and Historical Thinking.- Part III: Reconciling Ethnonationalism With Ethnic Diversity in Asia.- Chapter 10: Reconstructing the Nation: Struggles in Portraying Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Mainstream History Textbooks.- Chapter 11: Historical Narratives and National Identity in Lower Secondary History Textbooks in Malaysia (1959-2020).- Chapter 12: National Identity and History Teaching in Singapore: Bringing the Malays Back In.- Chapter 13: Constructing the Thai Race in Thai History Textbook Narratives.- Chapter 14: Afterword: Minorities and History Teaching.

Helen Ting Mu Hung is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia (UKM). Besides history education, her other research interests include national integration, multiculturalism, nationalism, gender and politics, identity and agency, and the politics of national identity.

Luigi Cajani is a retired Professor of Early Modern History at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He was formerly president (2012-2018) of the International Research Association for History and Social Sciences Education and is currently an associated scholar at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany.