History Textbooks as Discursive Mediators: The Case of Dutch Tolerance, 1920-1990

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Abstract

This chapter will scrutinize how and why the shared national narrative of Dutch tolerance was constructed, adapted, and perpetuated in twentieth-century Dutch history textbooks, a widespread genre that has provided many people with collective memory and identity, while communicating “cultural truths.”
In addition to the idea that religion led to varying – sometimes contrasting – historical interpretations and narrations in Dutch textbooks, this chapter adds a new perspective by showing how religion led to unification in the interpretation of national history under the heading of Dutch tolerance.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?
Subtitle of host publicationChristianity and Education in Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands
EditorsMerethe Roos, Johannes Westberg, Hendrik Edgren
PublisherDe Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages223-243
Number of pages21
ISBN (Electronic)9783111152578
ISBN (Print)9783111082431
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Sept 2024

Publication series

SeriesStudies in the History of Education and Culture
Volume5

Research programs

  • ESHCC HIS

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