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Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Defined as representations of past violence and oppression, difficult histories are contested and can evoke emotional, often painful, responses in the present. Teaching and learning these histories is contentious yet necessary for increased dialogue within conflict-ridden societies, reconciliation in post-conflict societies, and greater social cohesion in long-standing democratic nations. Focusing on locations and populations across the globe, chapter authors investigate how key themes?including culture, identity, collective memory, emotion, and multi-perspectivity, historical consciousness, distance, and amnesia?inform the teaching and learning of difficult histories.

Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Although official national historical narratives often exclude or marginalize victimized communities, teaching and learning difficult histories is necessary for increased dialog within conflict- ridden societies, reconciliation in post-conflict societies, and greater social cohesion in long-standing democratic nations. 

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Introduction: Terrie Epstein and Carla L. Peck


Section 1 Re-presentations of Difficult Histories


Chapter 1: Sustainable History Lessons for Post-Conflict Society Sirkka Ahonen


Chapter 2: Teaching the War: Reflections on Popular Uses of Difficult Heritage Maria Grever


Chapter 3: "Argue the contrary for the purpose of getting a PhD": Revisionist historians, the


Singapore government and the Operation Coldstore controversy LOH Kah Seng


Chapter 4: The State and the Volving of Teaching about Apartheid in School History in South Africa, Circa 1994-2016 Johan Wasserman


Commentary: Peter Seixas


Section 2 Teaching and Learning Indigenous Histories


Chapter 5: Teaching and Learning difficult histories: Australia Anna Clark


Chapter 6: Pedagogies of Forgetting: Colonial Encounters and Nationhood at New Zealand''s National Museum Joanna Kidman


Chapter 7: ''People are still grieving'': Maori and non-Maori adolescent''s perceptions of the Treaty of Waitangi Mark Sheehan, Terrie Epstein, Michael Harcourt


Chapter 8: "That''s Not My History": The Reconceptualization of Canadian History Education in Nova Scotia Schools Jennifer Tinkham


Commentary: Sirkka Ahonen


Section 3 Teachers and Teaching Difficult Histories


Chapter 9: "On whose side are you?": Difficult histories in the Israeli context Tsafrir Goldberg


Chapter 10: Teaching History and Educating for Citizenship: Allies or ''uneasy bedfellows'' in a post-conflict context? Alan McCully


Chapter 11: Teacher Understandings of Political Violence Represented in National Histories: The Trail of Tears Narrative Alan Stoskopf and Angela Bermudez


Chapter 12: Teacher Resistance Towards Difficult Histories: The Centrality of Affect in Disrupting Teacher Learning Michalinos Zembylas


Commentary: Maria Grever


Section 4 History and Identity


Chapter 13: Physical and Symbolic Violence Imposed: The Difficult Histories of Lesbian, Gay, and Trans-People J.B. Mayo, Jr.


Chapter 14: Learning the "burdening history": Challenges for History Education in Brazil Maria Auxiliadora Schmidt


Chapter 15: Intersections of Students'' Ethnic Identifications and Understandings of History Carla L. Peck


Commentary: Terrie Epstein