Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2012
Abstract
What establishes our past? Seemingly paradoxical question as past has happened already and there is nothing to establish once it is given. Text-books are one of the most elementary means through which past is mediated and memory of this past formatted.
It may seem that text-books are something of simpler form - easily accessible to youth - of objective scientific history as a scientific discipline. But are these history text-books truly this? In the following text, it is attempted to outline various understandings of memory establishment and to indicate in what role history text-books or history teaching in general function in these various understandings.