Description: Roy Weintraub is a Ph.D. candidate at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University, specializing in history teaching in Israel.
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The past shapes our lives each and every moment. It depends neither on the public status of the humanities, nor on the trend of IPOs on the NASDAQ index, nor on our screen time, nor on the aims and values of public education systems. Man, said Nietzsche, “hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.” Yet the way this chain of the past constructs our present lends itself to many possibilities, and these have repeatedly been at the center of intense controversies.
I research and teach about the intersection between history and education. I specialized in the way political, ideological, and cultural vectors shape history education in Israel and internationally. In particular, I am interested in the concept of Historical Consciousness; that is, how the understanding of the past constructs the present interpretation, and shapes expectations for the future.