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Imagining the Nation throughout School History Master Narratives
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2018
Public History and School
Questions regarding how people construct historical narratives in current societies have taken center stage in recent public and academic discussions, particularly since the seminal work on nations as "imagined communities".1 The master narrative has been developed as a unit of analysis in current social scientific and historical thought. Heller describes master narratives as general interpretation patterns.2 Their function is making sense of the past, present and future of a cultural
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