Show simple item record  

dc.contributor.authorBooth, Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-18T02:55:12Z
dc.date.available2012-04-18T02:55:12Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationBooth, D. (2004). Remnants of the past, history and the present. Waikato Journal of Education, 10, 51-69.en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1173-6135
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/6222
dc.description.abstractThe article interprets that it is hardly surprising then that philosophers of history point to the slender relationship between the raw facts of the past and understanding the past. The latter is an act of interpreting fragments from the past and not infrequently these support several points of view. This question has particular significance at a time when historians are increasingly thinking about historical materials and evidence in radically new ways that are fundamentally changing the nature of history as an academic discipline. In the light of these changes, the first part of the article sketches three different sets of epistemological assumptions that operate in contemporary history; the second applies these assumptions to a more detailed analysis of four pieces of historical material. Reflecting on the analysis in part two, the conclusion discusses the complex relations between the present and the past.en_NZ
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherFaculty of Education, University of Waikatoen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=8en_NZ
dc.rights© 2004 Waikato Journal of Education. It is posted here by permission for personal use.en_NZ
dc.subjecteducationen_NZ
dc.titleRemnants of the past, history and the present.en_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record