ISBN:
9780742551435
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Teaching the Violent Past : History Education and Reconciliation
DDC:
303.6071
Keywords:
Conflict management -- Case studies
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Peace -- Study and teaching -- Case studies
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Electronic books
Abstract:
During an armed conflict or period of gross human rights violations, the first priority is a cessation of violence. For the cease-fire to be more than a lull in hostilities and atrocities, however, it must be accompanied by a plan for political transition and social reconstruction. Essential to this long-term reconciliation process is education reform that teaches future generations information repressed under dictatorial regimes and offers new representations of former enemies. In Teaching the Violent Past, Cole has gathered nine case studies exploring the use of history education to promote
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reconciliation and History Education Elizabeth A. Cole, Asia Society, formerly Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Part I: As Generations Pass: The Challenges of Long-Term Reconciliation in History Textbooks; 1 The Trajectory of Reconciliation through History Education in Postunification Germany Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia; 2 Advancing or Obstructing Reconciliation? Changes in History Education and Disputes over History Textbooks in Japan Takashi Yoshida, Western Michigan University
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Representations of Aboriginal People in English Canadian History Textbooks: Toward Reconciliation Penney Clark, University of British ColumbiaPart II: Reconciliation in Process; 4 History Teaching and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland Alison Kitson, Training and Development Agency for Schools, U.K.; 5 The Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship: The Challenges of Representing a Conflictive Past in Secondary Schools Rafael Valls, University of Valencia
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Historical Memory and the Limits of Peace Education: Examining Guatemala's Memory of Silence and the Politics of Curriculum Design Elizabeth Oglesby, University of ArizonaPart III: Reconciliation Jeopardized, Undone, or Not Yet Attained: Aspirational and Counter-Reconciliatory Cases; 7 History and Myth in the Soviet Empire and the Russian Republic Thomas Sherlock, United States Military Academy; 8 On the Use and Abuse of Korea's Past: An Inquiry into History Teaching and Reconciliation Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland and Hoang Young-lu, Pusan University of Foreign Studies
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The Role of History Textbooks in Shaping Collective Identities in India and Pakistan Jon Dorschner, United States Department of State and Thomas Sherlock, United States Military AcademyAfterword Audrey R. Chapman, University of Connecticut Health Center; Index; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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