ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in this book. The book focuses on the complications teachers encounter when dealing with “difficult histories". Perhaps we can be optimistic despite the difficulties of teaching about sensitive topics: The provision of state finances may prove the importance of history in society. The book indicates that teachers need more support with their teaching practice. Moreover, teaching about uncontested or “easy” histories without questioning the narrative, without any interruptions in students’ thinking, seems a rather dull activity and in that sense rather difficult. At the start of the course male and female students expressed their resistance to the very idea of “just focusing on women.” The book shows that even when students demonstrated critical disciplinary practices, they still focused more critically on information threatening in-group image than fostering it.
