What shall we tell the children? : international perspectives on school history textbooks /

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Imprint:Greenwich, Conn. : IAP- Information Age Pub., ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages)
Language:English
Series:Research in Curriculum and Instruction.
Research in curriculum and instruction.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11286343
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Other authors / contributors:Foster, Stuart J., 1960-
Crawford, Keith, 1950-
ISBN:9781607525349
1607525348
1281384119
9781281384119
1593115091
9781593115098
1593115105
9781593115104
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:This text illustrates that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse, textbooks are artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order.
Other form:Print version: What shall we tell the children? Greenwich, Conn. : IAP- Information Age Pub., ©2006 9786611384111
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the critical importance of history textbook research / Stuart Foster and Keith Crawford
  • Defining the boundaries of "Chineseness": Tibet, Mongolia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in mainland history textbooks / Edward Vickers
  • Culture wars : Japanese history textbooks and the construction of official memory / Keith Crawford
  • A gendered national identity : an analysis of North and South Korean textbooks / Misook Kim
  • Beyond the national and the transnational : perspectives of WWII in U.S.A, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, and English school history textbooks / Jason Nicholls
  • The construction of European identity 1945-present / Yasemin Soysal
  • From evasion to a crucial tool of moral and political education : teaching national socialism and the Holocaust in Germany / Falk Pingel
  • Whose history? portrayal of immigrant groups in U.S. history textbooks, 1800-present / Stuart Foster
  • The islamization of Pakistani social studies textbooks / Yvette Claire Rosser
  • Reconstructing the past, constructing the future in Israeli textbooks / Dan Porat
  • Control through education? the politicization of Israeli and Palestinian school textbooks / Jonathan Kriener
  • The dynamics of history textbook production during South Africa's educational transformation / Rob Siebörger.