| Description |
1 online resource (580 pages) |
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Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education |
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Routledge critical studies in Asian education.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Settings; 1. Introduction: Controversy, history and history education in Asia; Controversy in the Asian context; Asian authoritarianism and its shifts; The structure of this book; Controversies in history textbooks; Teaching historical controversy; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. Teaching controversial issues in the classroom: The exciting potential of disciplinary history; Teaching controversial issues in the history classroom; Differing conceptions of school history |
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The importance of contextThe importance of aims and definitions; Teaching historical controversy: Seven practical stages; Further classroom considerations; The ultimate value of teaching historical controversy; Notes; References; Part II: Controversies in history textbooks; 3. The battle over the memory of the nation: Whose national history?; Ethnic politics and the writing of national history; The politics of national identity; Form 4 history: The making of 'world citizens' versus citizens with an Islamic worldview; The Form 5 textbook: An ethnic account of the historicity of nationhood |
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Conception of bangsa (nation)Brief comparison with the 1992 Form 5 textbook; Conclusions: National history, patriotism and national unity; Notes; References; Cited secondary history textbooks and syllabus; 4. The other side of silence: Religion and conflict in Indian textbooks; The paradox of education; Education and religion; Education and conflict; Religion in NCERT textbooks; Religion and conflict -- contextualizing a controversy; Conclusion; Notes; References |
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5. How can we teach the old foe's wounds? Analysis of descriptions of the Japanese occupation and the atomic bombs in Vietnamese and Singaporean textbooksTextbooks, curriculum ideologies, and national identity; Curriculum ideologies in Singapore; Curriculum ideologies in Vietnam; Analytical approach; Findings; Singaporean textbooks: The occupation by Japan; Singaporean textbooks: The atomic bombings; Vietnamese textbooks: The occupation by Japan; Vietnamese textbooks: The atomic bombings; Discussion and conclusion; Voices and images; World views |
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Unnoticed controversy and means of reconciliationReferences; 6. Constructing the nation: Portrayals of national identity in Singapore's school textbook narratives of the Japanese Occupation; Singapore, history education and the Japanese Occupation; Nationalism and the civic-ethnic distinction; Kohn's West-East framework; Kuzio's model; Brown's alternative framework; The civic-ethnic framework and textbook narratives; Analytical methods; Findings; 1985 textbook; 1994 textbooks; 1999 textbook; 2007 textbooks; Discussion; Notes; References |
| Summary |
This book examines both history textbook controversies AND teaching historical controversy in Asian contexts. The different perspectives provided by the book's authors offer numerous insights, examples, and approaches for understanding historical controversy to provide a practical gold mine for scholars and practitioners. The book provides case studies of history textbook controversies ranging from treatments of the Nanjing Massacre to a comparative treatment of Japanese occupation in Vietnamese and Singaporean textbooks to the differences in history textbooks published by secular and Hindu |
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7. Japanese history textbooks and the Asia-Pacific War: Apportioning blame |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Loh, Kah Seng
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Lim, Ivy Maria
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Nanç, Gül
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Jaffar, Junaidah
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| ISBN |
9781135014216 |
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1135014213 |
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