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Author Rodwell, Grant, author.

Title Whose history? : engaging history students through historical fiction / Grant Rodwell.

Publication Info. Adelaide, South Australia : University of Adelaide Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xii, 265 pages))
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265).
Contents Introduction -- Part I: The 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 -- The 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.
Note GMD: electronic resource.
Subject History -- Study and teaching -- Australia.
History -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00958303
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities.
ISBN 9781922064509 (electronic bk.)
1922064505 (electronic bk.)
9781922064516
1922064513
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