Construction of collective memory through official history education in North Cyprus (1971-2003)
Fundamental to recalling memories and remembering is to look at the past and the future concurrently. Remembering is crucial to have a temporal association so that present changes and developments can be elaborated in understanding the construction of memory. Historical trauma is a psychological and...
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Ahmet Simsek
2024-05-01
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| description | Fundamental to recalling memories and remembering is to look at the past and the future concurrently. Remembering is crucial to have a temporal association so that present changes and developments can be elaborated in understanding the construction of memory. Historical trauma is a psychological and emotional collective and subjective injury which are transmitted from adults to children in a cycle process, and it continues over a life span of individuals and across generations. Soft memories are created and shared as a social process. These are narratives, historical texts and similar, less tangible forms of memory. History education has a profound influence on social discourse and the way soft memories are perceived, and since formal schooling is at the centre of shaping a generation and textbooks are the main medium of knowledge transmission, the official narrative shapes it and is often presented selectively. This research explores how the official regulation of history education is used to align official state discourse with social memory. This research employs secondary data and document analysis by examining the compulsory textbook (1979) used since 1971 in history education. It explores history education’s impact on individual narratives of remembrance and collective memory. It examines the long-term effects of what has been taught in secondary school history education on adulthood perceptions of past historical occurrences. Findings confirm that a consistent, official historical discourse supported by exposure to “hard” and “soft” memories enables the maintenance of collective memory as represented in the official discourse among society members. It also concluded that when difficult history is transmitted to the younger generation as part of education, they may experience trauma and similar negative associated feelings; furthermore, they do not necessarily unconditionally embrace the official history but question it in their adulthood. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-82c8f1be40794c3081e77b115c9e52a12025-02-04T09:19:01ZengAhmet SimsekTurkish History Education Journal2147-45162024-05-0113114216910.17497/tuhed.1423137753Construction of collective memory through official history education in North Cyprus (1971-2003)Gizem Oksuzoglu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3964-8977Uluslararası Final ÜniversitesiFundamental to recalling memories and remembering is to look at the past and the future concurrently. Remembering is crucial to have a temporal association so that present changes and developments can be elaborated in understanding the construction of memory. Historical trauma is a psychological and emotional collective and subjective injury which are transmitted from adults to children in a cycle process, and it continues over a life span of individuals and across generations. Soft memories are created and shared as a social process. These are narratives, historical texts and similar, less tangible forms of memory. History education has a profound influence on social discourse and the way soft memories are perceived, and since formal schooling is at the centre of shaping a generation and textbooks are the main medium of knowledge transmission, the official narrative shapes it and is often presented selectively. This research explores how the official regulation of history education is used to align official state discourse with social memory. This research employs secondary data and document analysis by examining the compulsory textbook (1979) used since 1971 in history education. It explores history education’s impact on individual narratives of remembrance and collective memory. It examines the long-term effects of what has been taught in secondary school history education on adulthood perceptions of past historical occurrences. Findings confirm that a consistent, official historical discourse supported by exposure to “hard” and “soft” memories enables the maintenance of collective memory as represented in the official discourse among society members. It also concluded that when difficult history is transmitted to the younger generation as part of education, they may experience trauma and similar negative associated feelings; furthermore, they do not necessarily unconditionally embrace the official history but question it in their adulthood.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3673712history educationhistorical traumacollective memoryhard and soft memoriesnorth cyprus |
| spellingShingle | Gizem Oksuzoglu Construction of collective memory through official history education in North Cyprus (1971-2003) Turkish History Education Journal history education historical trauma collective memory hard and soft memories north cyprus |
| title | Construction of collective memory through official history education in North Cyprus (1971-2003) |
| title_full | Construction of collective memory through official history education in North Cyprus (1971-2003) |
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| title_short | Construction of collective memory through official history education in North Cyprus (1971-2003) |
| title_sort | construction of collective memory through official history education in north cyprus 1971 2003 |
| topic | history education historical trauma collective memory hard and soft memories north cyprus |
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