Representing Australia's involvement in the First World War: discrepancies between public discourses and school history textbooks from 1916 to 1936

Title: Representing Australia's involvement in the First World War: discrepancies between public discourses and school history textbooks from 1916 to 1936
Creator: Sharp, Heather
Relation: Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 1-23
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2014.060101
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: This article investigates discrepancies between narratives of national independence in public discourses surrounding the First World War and narratives of loyalty in school textbooks in Queensland, Australia. Five textbooks commonly used in schools from 1916 to 1936 are analyzed in order to ascertain how the First World War was represented to pupils via the history curriculum. This article argues that, although public discourses were in a state of flux, and often viewed Australia as a country that was becoming increasingly independent of its colonial ruler Great Britain, textbooks that maintained a static view continued to look to Great Britain as a context in which to teach national history to school pupils.
Subject: Australian identity; curriculum; first world war; history or culture wars; national history education; textbooks
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1303939
Identifier: uon:20764
Identifier: ISSN:2041-6946
Language: eng
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