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Title History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation : Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects / edited by Karina V. Korostelina and Simone Lässig ; with Stefan Ihrig
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution.
Contents Cover; History Education and Post- Conflict Reconciliation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction part 1: post-conflict reconciliation and joint history textbook projects; Introduction part 2: peace education and joint history textbook projects; 1 From textbook comparison to common textbooks? Changing patterns in international textbook revision; 2 Symbol or reality? The background, implementation and development of the Franco-German history textbook
3 Overcoming the national framework of teaching media: binational teacher's books and multinational teaching materials4 Towards a joint German-Polish history textbook: historical roots, structures and challenges; 5 Forging a common narrative in former Yugoslavia: the design, implementation and impact of the Scholars' Initiative; 6 Reconnecting history: the Joint History Project in the Balkans; 7 History as a project of the future: the European history textbook debate; 8 Learning each other's historical narrative: a road map to peace in Israel/Palestine?
9 The Tbilisi Initiative: the story of an unpublished textbook10 Striving for common history textbooks in Northeast Asia (China, South Korea and Japan): between ideal and reality; 11 Best practice models and scholarly concepts: theoretical and methodological framework for joint history projects; Select bibliography and further reading; Index
Summary This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East. Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and the implementation of compulsory education, textbooks have been seen as privileged media. The knowledge they convey is relatively persistent and moreover highly selective: every textbook author must choose and omit, condense, structure, reduce, and generalize information. Within this context, history textbooks are ofte
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject History -- Textbooks
History -- Study and teaching.
International education -- Textbooks
HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
History -- Study and teaching
International education
History
Genre/Form Textbooks
Form Electronic book
Author Korostelina, K. V. (Karina Valentinovna)
Lässig, Simone, 1964-
Ihrig, Stefan.
ISBN 9781135100339
1135100330