HISTORICAL MASTER NARRATIVES
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
08. Master Narrative
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN NATIONAL PAST AND PRESENT IN THE APPROPRIATION OF HISTORICAL MASTER NARRATIVES
Floor van Alphen & Mario Carretero (2015)
In this paper a contribution is made by analyzing how the relation between past and present is constructed in master narrative representation, based on interviews with high school students narrating national history and presidential discourse commemorating it. It is proposed that the relation between past and present is constructed in three ways: past and present are identified; the past is idealized and their relation is teleologically constructed.
07 Master narrative
NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVES OF A MORALLY QUESTIONABLE HISTORICAL PROCESS
María Sarti & Alicia Barreiro (2018)
Different studies have shown that national groups construct a positive social identity through the appropriation of heroic narratives about the national past. Within this framework, this research studied the narratives of Argentine university students (n = 27), without specific training in history about a historical process in which their national state carried out morally questionable actions.
01 Historical Maps
HISTORICAL MAPS AS A NEGLECTED ISSUE IN HISTORY EDUCATION. STUDENTS AND TEXTBOOKS REPRESENTATIONS OF TERRITORIAL CHANGES OF SPAIN AND ARGENTINA
Cristian Parellada, María Rodríguez-Moneo and Mario Carretero (2024)
The aim of this paper is to focus on a matter not much considered in any of these approaches. This is to say, “where” the historical processes occurred. Usually the “where” implies a specific territory that is under dispute. In this vein, territories and their transformation through different time periods are represented by historical maps reproduced in atlas and textbooks. But these representations could have several biases and also tend to provide a number of incomplete ideas among the students and citizens in general.
02. Historical maps
HISTORICAL BORDERS AND MAPS AS SYMBOLIC SUPPORTS TO MASTER NARRATIVES AND HISTORY EDUCATION
Cristian Parellada, Mario Carretero and María Rodríguez-Moneo (2020)
This article represents an attempt to establish a fruitful dialogue among the field of border studies, history education, sociocultural psychology, and the history of cartography. Seminal studies on borders have asserted that the historical maps included in textbooks are basically an imagined representation. This paper will consider the extent to which cultural and educational origins and uses of these maps, particularly in school settings, act as a support to historical essentialist views.
04. Máster narrative
TELLING A NATIONAL NARRATIVE THAT IS NOT YOUR OWN. DOES IT ENABLE CRITICAL HISTORICAL CONSUMPTION?
Cesar Lopez, Mario Carretero and Maria Rodriguez-Moneo (2014)
The majority of studies examining historical representations of national narratives have used historical content of the students’ own nation. This study, on the other hand, analyzed the historical understanding of 34 Spanish university students concerning three dimensions of historical narratives about a nation other than their own. These dimensions were: the establishment of the historical subject, the moral judgment about the national group actions, and the legitimacy of the ownership of the territory. The distinction among three different dimensions is presented as providing a better both theoretical and empirical comprehension of master narratives as sociocultural devices.
03 Máster narrative
HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND THE TENSION AMONG NATIONAL IDENTITIES, COLONIALISM AND CITIZENSHIP
Mario Carretero, Everardo Perez-Manjarrez (2019)
In this chapter, we refect upon the narrative construction of school history and the intersections between history, national identity, and citizenship in education. We aim to contribute to advancing history education research from the discussion of the current approaches in the feld, based on the studies we have conducted in Latin America and Spain.
02 Master Narrative
CONCEPTUAL CHANGE AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVES ABOUT THE NATION A Theoretical and Empirical Approach
Cesar Lopez, Mario Carretero & Maria Rodriguez-Moneo (2014)
In this chapter, the following issues will be addressed. First, a general overview of the topic of conceptual change in social and historical knowledge will be presented; in particular, establishing a relation to the specific problems and features of the latter. An important distinction will be presented concerning two different goals of history as subject matter. The so-called Romantic and Enlightened objectives mostly related to identity construction and to critical and disciplinary analysis of the past respectively.
01 Historical narratives