Designing History in East Asian Textbooks

Identity Politics and Transnational Aspirations
Herausgeber: Müller, Gotelind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the efforts throughout East Asia to deploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular in order to shape notions of identity. Written by a group of international education experts chapters discuss the enduring focus on the role of curricula in inculcating homogenous visions of the national self, and indeed homogenized visions of significant 'others'. The book also looks at the alternative approaches to textbook design, including the new trend of common textbook initiatives which operate with the aim of defusing the tensions that mutual representation have tended to fuel. It also breaks new ground in the alaysis of East Asia's textbook wars by including contributions from scholars and curriculum developers involved in writing national and multi-national history textbooks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415855587
• ISBN-10: 0415855586
• Artikelnr.: 37186927

Autorenporträt

Gotelind Müller is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I The Ambivalence of National Self/Selves: Historical
shifts 1 The Predicament of Compiling East Asia Schoolbooks 2 A Divided
"Self" and an Overwhelming "Other"? 3 Learning to Love the Motherland 4
Telling Histories of an Island Part II Designing "Self" and "Other" in
School Textbooks: Practical Considerations 5 Teaching "the Others' History"
in Chinese Schools 6 New Curriculum Reform and History Textbook Compilation
in Contemporary China 7 The "Others" in Chinese History Textbooks 8
Rewriting history in a textbook in contemporary Japan 9 The Construction of
"Self" and Western and Asian "Others" in Contemporary Japanese Civics and
Ethics Textbooks Part III Self-Assertion, Revisionism and Historical
Reconciliation: Conflicts and Perspectives 10 The "Tokyo Trial View of
History" and its Revision in Contemporary Japan / East Asia 11 History
Conflicts and Dialogues between Korea and Japan 12 Historical
Reconciliation between Germany and Poland as seen from a Japanese
Perspective 13 Mediating Textbook Conflicts