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What is Historical Memory and Historical Awareness

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education
Historical memory is a vindication of the past. Historical awareness uses procedures to construct temporality and change-continuity in a process that goes from the past to the future. Memory looks toward the past and historical awareness revisits the past to analyse how to think about the future. Memory is related to imagination and historical empathy. Historical awareness is more related to the capacities of interpretation and historical narration. Memory is the example or the moral lesson, while historical awareness is the analysis of possibilities and the evaluation of social changes, ruptures and continuities
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Critical Citizenship Education and Heritage Education
Antoni Santisteban-Fernández (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Neus González-Monfort (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), and Joan Pagès-Blanch (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1978-3.ch002
Abstract
Heritage education enables us to question past societies to help us understand the present and think about the future to develop historical awareness. Heritage should be interpreted based on the implicit power relations, the stories that created it and those that now interpret it from different vantage points. Education for critical citizenship should examine the role of women or minorities when studying the heritage and call for an intercultural perspective. Heritage education is an extraordinary tool to help us understand the change and continuity in both objects and ideas, traditions and everyday life. Through heritage education, we have to develop youth critical awareness so that they reinterpret their culture based on their reality and interests.
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