Article Review: Tupper, J. (2005). We Interrupt This Moment: Education and the Teaching of History

Abstract

The author of this article encourages educators to apply critical analysis to the educational mandate of national museum exhibits. In Trofanenko’s opinion national museums are “public representations of the past” that form the “collective consciousness” of the past and are places “where the public affirms the museums authority to define and educate” (p. 271). She actively questions the authority of this institution to construction narratives of national identity.