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Time and Place: Sites of Memory and the Sense of History

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2025

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Cook, Alexander

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Taylor & Francis

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This chapter analyses the relationship between place and practices of historical education, commemoration, reflection and contestation. It looks at common functions and strategic uses of ‘sites of memory’ - designated locations that serve as physical focal points for the collective engagement with past events and eras. The chapter discusses the historical and trans-cultural ubiquity of associating specific places with the cultivation of collective memory. It also discusses contemporary approaches to harnessing the potential of place for nurturing historical understanding via scholarship on affective education, multi-sensory cognition, heritage pedagogy, living history and experimental archaeology.

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https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733802188

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The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education

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10.4324/9781003462088-14

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