{"id":8896,"date":"2026-05-06T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:40:46","slug":"new-publication-history-education-and-the-truth-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-publication-history-education-and-the-truth-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication: History Education and the Truth Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>History Education and the Truth Problem<\/em> by Terry Haydn<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith misinformation and distorted versions of the past gaining dangerous traction worldwide, it is crucial that students and adults can discern between \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 history and make accurate and well-founded judgements on contemporary issues and problems. This timely book explores the concept of truth in the discipline of history and argues that history education must evolve to combat the post-truth crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The book examines how recent changes in society and in technology have had a disruptive influence on both the writing of history and on its consumption and use and the consequences of this for the health and vitality of societies worldwide. It considers how history education might address the truth problem more effectively, so students understand how knowledge is constructed, questioned and deployed and can make intelligent and rational decisions about what to believe both about the past and the present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781003092940\/history-education-truth-problem-terry-haydn\">https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781003092940\/history-education-truth-problem-terry-haydn<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Education and the Truth Problem by Terry Haydn \u201cWith misinformation and distorted versions of the past gaining dangerous traction worldwide, it is crucial that students and adults can discern between \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 history and make accurate and well-founded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8897,"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions\/8897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishd.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}