Education and Historical Justice - by James Miles & Matthew R Keynes (Hardcover)

About the Book

Explores how global movements for historical redress and reconciliation are reshaping education and schooling.

Book Synopsis

Education and Historical Justiceexplores how global movements for historical redress and reconciliation are reshaping education and schooling.

This book is the first to theorize the important and growing nexus between education and historical justice engaging questions of temporality, narrativity and responsibility. It considers how educational policy, curriculum, pedagogy, and materials are being reformed to address goals of historical justice, redress and reparations globally, with a focus on Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland and South Africa. It places these changes and challenges in historical context drawing on international human rights law, political and historical theory, and histories of education, to account for the growing role of education in the pursuit of historical justice. Finally, it assesses how education oriented towards historical justice reconfigures subjectivities and raises questions around complicity, guilt, and collective responsibility which have important implications for educators, researchers, and policymakers.

Review Quotes

How can education reckon with and work to repair historical injustices? James Miles and Mati Keynes brilliantly explore the tensions and politics of responsibility and redress within schools. Traversing multiple national contexts, this book shows us new epistemic and relational possibilities for 'historical justice education'; an exciting and thoroughly compelling invitation to rethink education's relationship to past, present and future.

James Miles and Matthew Keynes have produced an exceptional study of the challenges and possibilities for history education in cultures of redress. Education and Historical justice is thoughtful and thorough-a collaboration of the best kind.

About the Author

James Miles is Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Matthew R. Keynes is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia.