Confronting "dark" colonial pasts: a historical analysis of practices of representation in Belgian and Congolese schools, 1945–2015.
Over half a century since the last wave of political decolonisation, the handling of "dark" colonial histories remains topical. Influenced by the postcolonial turn, this study aims to examine, from a novel historical and comparative perspective, evolving textbook representations of Belgian coloniali...
| Publicado en: | Paedagogica Historica Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 293 - 321 |
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