Antologin visar nyansrikedomen inom det ämne som i vid mening kallas historia. Avståndet mellan texterna kan tyckas vara stort, då det rör sig om skildringar av hur vikingar gestaltas på museum, den svenska adelns förändrade identitet under 1800-talet, hur unga flyktingar i Sverige idag formulerar sin historiska självförståelse i sociala medier och analys av socialdemokraters memoarer som historieskrivning. Vidare berörs materialförvaltares professionalisering inom elitishockey, kulturarv och reggaeturism i Jamaica samt volontärorganisationers förändring till politiska rörelser i flyktingmottagandet 2015. Det gemensamma temat för antologin är frågor om hur individer eller kollektiv formar sin identitet i relation till de temporala sammanhang som de skriver in sig själva i.

This chapter proposes the theme of the history of travel and travelers for a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning history for active citizenship education. In particular, we analyze briefly on the historical ways: itineraries, routes, and cultures. From the routes of faith to the itineraries and routes of trade to the routes of conflict (European explorations and conquests in the Americas, from the crusades to the world wars) and their participants; your travel and trade. Over the millennia, the sea has been the main vector of trade and the Mediterranean ports have been crucial places for the economy. Networks of exchanges from foodstuffs to metals, from timber to grain, spices and textiles, men, women, slaves, yesterday as still today; the journeys and mirages of forced nomads. These are contents that through an active methodology can offer a critical approach to the phenomenon of travel considered decisive for the elaboration of European societies and make students acquire a vision of the complex relationships existing between different cultures through an approach by outcomes of history. Knowing the fundamental moments and processes of the European history of time travel with glances at world history starting also from personal and local history and expounding historical knowledge by making connections and arguing one’s own reflections, we believe can develop education for democratic citizenship through critical and responsible behavior inspired by the values of freedom and solidarity at all levels of organized life (local, national, European, and world).

The purpose of this article is to trace meaning conveyed in narratives of Sweden and "Swedishness" in history textbooks published between 1931 and 2009. Its objective is also to show how narratives have been transformed and changed over time, and what factors may have influenced these changes. A third aim is to show which of these narratives are expressed by some contemporary students. The empirical material consists of 52 history textbooks and 54 student texts. The research has a hermeneutical perspective, and draws on methods of narrative theory and conceptual history. It identifies six meta-narratives in the texts: the narrative of neutrality, the narrative of the prosperous country, the narrative of the welfare country, the narrative of the role model country of democracy, the narrative of the stranger, and the narrative of the world's most gender-equal country. Each of these meta-narratives has different narrative forms that contain different protagonists generating, in turn, different categories of sub-narratives. This article argues that, while all textbook narratives are present in the students' texts, they are often constructed in different temporal contexts, and have a slightly different moral perspective.