HISTORY CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT MODEL TOWARDS NATION BUILDING OF MALAYSIA

The Role of History, Historiography and Historian in Nation Building

Some scholars outside historical scholarship view history as a past, that only has relevance when it is needed or ‘past’ that should totally be forgotten. Such people see these academic disciplines as archaic if not completely useless. Others hold it in low esteem. This may not only be seen as misconception of history, as a process and discipline, it has as well affected the unity, progress, pe...

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

History curriculum development in New South Wales

The increasing bureaucratisation of the New South Wales [NSW] Board of Studies [BOS], the statutory body responsible for curriculum determination in NSW, has led to a tightening of curricular controls and the further marginalisation of teacher participation in curriculum decision-making processes. The prevalence of acontextual mandated curriculum change initiatives compromises teacher professio...

Modernism and Nation Building

Nation-States in History

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