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As an integral element in the canonised official historiography, and part of the wider machinery of hegemonic narrative production, school history textbooks are pedagogically specific political artefacts with a guaranteed readership. They are a vast ‘sorting and selecting device’ and the embodiment of political, economic and cultural activities, battles and compromises over knowledge and memory. This chapter explores the politics of school textbooks as a medium of history in Iran, where the State exerts control over knowledge and memory of the past, as implicated in myths, political ones in particular.

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Introduction: Politics of Teaching the Past

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    2026年

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  • Yasamin Alkhansa

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As an integral element in the canonised official historiography, and part of the wider machinery of hegemonic narrative production, school history textbooks are pedagogically specific political artefacts with a guaranteed readership. They are a vast ‘sorting and selecting device’ and the embodiment of political, economic and cultural activities, battles and compromises over knowledge and memory. This chapter explores the politics of school textbooks as a medium of history in Iran, where the State exerts control over knowledge and memory of the past, as implicated in myths, political ones in particular.