Going to the pictures: Learning to see the life histories of minorities within majority narratives

Smart, Dean

Abstract

This book is a collection of writings on Life History Research. My text is a chapter about the positioning of minorities in textbooks, and the unintentional exclusion of ‘the ethnic other,’ using data drawn from my research into textbooks in England. This chapter provides a different dimension to traditional life history research, and explores learning journies and positioning of insider-outsider research, and the significance of representation of people in secondary school History textbooks in England to young people and their teachers.

• Publication Date: Feb 15, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 97-114
• Book Title: Exploring learning, identity and power through life history and narrative research.
• ISBN: 9780415496445
• Keywords: life-history, minorities
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/981257
• Publisher URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415496445/