War, Nation, Memory: International Perspectives on World War II in School History Textbooks (Hc) (Research in Curriculum and Instruction) - Hardcover

Buch 8 von 19: Research in Curriculum and Instruction

Crawford, Keith; Foster, Stuart J.

 
9781593118525: War, Nation, Memory: International Perspectives on World War II in School History Textbooks (Hc) (Research in Curriculum and Instruction)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 159311852X ISBN 13: 9781593118525
Verlag: Information Age Publishing, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its prominent place in school history textbooks is almost guaranteed. As this book demonstrates, however, the stories that nations choose to tell their young about World War II do not represent a universally accepted "truth" about events during the war. Rather, wartime narratives contained in school textbooks typically are selected to instil in the young a sense of national pride, common identify, and shared collective memory. To understand this process War, Nation, Memory describes and evaluates school history textbooks from many nations deeply affected by World War II including China, France, Germany, Japan, USA, and the United Kingdom. It critically examines the very different and complex perspectives offered in many nations and analyses the ways in which textbooks commonly serve as instruments of socialisation and, in some cases, propaganda. Above all, War, Nation, Memory demonstrates that far from containing "neutral" knowledge, history textbooks prove fascinating cultural artefacts consciously shaped and legitimated by powerful ideological, cultural, and sociopolitical forces dominant in the present.

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Verlag
Information Age Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
159311852X
ISBN 13 
9781593118525
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
228
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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