Designing History in East Asian Textbooks: Identity Politics and Transnational Aspirations

ISBN-13: 9780415602525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 304 str.

Gotelind Ma1/4ller-Saini

Opis

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. The chapters also examine the trend of 'common textbook initiatives', which have recently emerged in East Asia with the aim of helping to defuse tensions arguably fuelled by existing practices of mutual (mis)representation. These are analysed in relation to the East Asian political context, and compared with previous and ongoing endeavours in other parts of the world, particularly Europe, which have been keenly observed by East Asian practitioners. 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'. Including contributions from scholars and curriculum developers involved personally in the writing of national and multi-national history textbooks this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian education, Asian history and comparative education studies.Gotelind Muller is Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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