History Education and National Identity in East Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415948081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 358 str.

Vickers Edward;Jones Alisa

Opis

Visions of the past and the way that history is defined and taught says a lot about what a country values in its view of itself and the politics it seeks to preserve. In this first groundbreaking study of the politics of history education in East Asian societies, Vickers and Jones examine history curriculum development across the entire region, showing wide-ranging examples of the intersection between history, politics and education. They pay particular attention to changing official visions of the past in the context of political transformations, such as those associated with the rise of communism, decolonization and the Cold War divisions of China and Korea, which have regional dimensions and implications. In separate chapters devoted to mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Singapore, the authors focus on the particular content of the official syllabi and on the influences shaping government policy related to history education.

Spis treści

1. History, Politics and Identity in East Asia: An Overview by Edward Vickers2. Nationalism and the State in East Asian Historiography by Edward Vickers and Alisa Jones3. History Curriculum Development in The People's Republic of China by Alisa Jones4. National Identity and the History Curriculum in Taiwan by Liu Mei-hui and Hung Li-Ching5. Politics, Identity and the History Curriculum in Hong Kong by Edward Vickers and Flora Kan6. The History Text: Framing Ethno-Cultural and Civic Nationalism in the Divided Koreas by Chris Wilson and Danton Ford7. History Curriculum Development and Political Change in Singapore by S. Gopinathan and Goh Chor Boon8. History Education and Politicsl Controversy in Post-war Japan by Nozaki Yoshiko9. How Japanese Schools Teach History: A Comparison with England by Peter Cave10. History Curriculum Development in East Asia: Problems, Tensions and Issues by Edward Vickers and Alisa Jones

O autorze

Edward Vickers is Lecturer in Comparative Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong, and currently resides in Beijing. He has writted articles on the politics of history education in Hong Kong for Compartative Education and The Oxford Review of Education .