Terminale history class: teaching about torture during the Algerian war

J. McCormack

DOI:10.1080/0963948042000196379

Corpus ID: 145083214

Terminale history class: teaching about torture during the Algerian war

@article{McCormack2004TerminaleHC,
  title={Terminale history class: teaching about torture during the Algerian war},
  author={J. McCormack},
  journal={Modern & Contemporary France},
  year={2004},
  volume={12},
  pages={75 - 86}
}

J. McCormack

Published 2004

Sociology

Modern & Contemporary France

This article discusses the way the French army's use of torture during the Algerian war (1954–1962) is taught in terminale history class in contemporary France. In recent years the issue of torture has re‐emerged in the public sphere and has attracted considerable media coverage. Through a case study of this vector of memory, the article appraises the teaching of history by drawing on interviews with historians, teachers and pupils in France as well as on written sources such as textbooks and… CONTINUE READING

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