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Article: Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is history fiction?(Book review)
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- History of Education Review
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- July 1, 2007
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Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is history fiction?, Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2006. viii + 296 pp., ISBN 0868407348.
This book will interest historians of education for at least three reasons. First, like the mainstream discipline, the history of education has suffered from an incursion of divergent ideologies. Secondly, politicians have displayed active concern about the ideologies pervading school history. Thirdly, historiography has recently been incorporated in the senior secondary school curricula; in New South Wales the Modern History syllabus introduced an Extension course in historical theory in 2001.
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