Reading History curriculum as postcolonial text: Towards a curricular response to the History wars in Australia and beyond

Curriculum Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 383-400

  Parkes, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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EID: 36749097951     PISSN: 03626784     EISSN: 1467873X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-873X.2007.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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