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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779699703321

Titolo

History education and post-conflict reconciliation : reconsidering  joint textbook projects / / edited by Karina V. Korostelina and Simone Lassig ; with Stefan Ihrig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-10032-2

0-203-07260-X

1-299-44809-7

1-135-10033-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution

Altri autori (Persone)

IhrigStefan

KorostelinaK. V (Karina Valentinovna)

LassigSimone <1964->

Disciplina

907.1

Soggetti

History - Textbooks

History - Study and teaching

International education - Textbooks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Post-conflict reconciliation and joint history textbook projects / Simone Lässig -- Peace education and joint history textbook projects / Karina V. Korostelina -- From textbook comparison to common textbooks: changing patterns in international textbook revision / Georg Stöber -- Symbol or reality: the background, implementation and development of the Franco-German history textbook / Corine Defrance and Ulrich Pfeil -- Overcoming the national framework of teaching media: binational teacher's books and multinational teaching materials / Robert Maier -- Towards a joint German-Polish history textbook: historical roots, structures and challenges / Simone Lässig and Thomas Strobel -- Forging a common narrative in former Yugoslavia: the design, implementation and impact of the scholars' initiative / Charles Ingrao -- Reconnecting history: the joint history project in the Balkans / Lubov Fajfer -- History as a project of the future: the European history textbook debate / Falk Pingel -- Learning each other's historical



narrative: a road map to peace in Israel/Palestine / Achim Rohde -- The Tbilisi initiative: the story of an unpublished textbook / Karina Korostelina -- Striving for common history textbooks in northeast Asia (China, South Korea and Japan): between ideal and reality / Daqing Yang and Ju-Back Sin -- Best practice models and scholarly concepts: theoretical and methodological framework for joint history projects / Karina Korostelina.

Sommario/riassunto

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