AMERİKA’DAKİ NEO-MUHAFAZAKAR, LİBERAL TARİHÇİLİK ÇATIŞMASI VE LYNNE CHENEY

Abstract

When education systems and history education are scrutinized, it is quite easy to notice the intervention of power in chronologically presented historical facts and massages that are conveyed through this information, which can be exemplified with many solid examples. As expected, alternative arguments are often constructed by sides that can be considered as opposition against this involvement of power. These contrasting opinions have myriad of points of origin according to which ideology they are based on, such as but not limited to liberalism, conservatism and socialism. This research examines historical meanings that were attributed by growing neo-conservatism in the United States after 1980, along with history education and history perception of Lynne Cheney who defended neo-conservatism. Thus, by profoundly portraying the education system of the United States, a country that stands among others as a modern state, we would be able compare the American system with its counterparts. While we write about how history education in a particular country can be subjected to various discussions and political conflicts, we will shed light to the fact that education, especially history education, does not only have educational purposes.