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(Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation

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  1. James H. Williams

    1. The George Washington University, Washington D.C, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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    1. Nation, State, School, Textbook

      • James H. Williams
      Pages 1-9

  3. Shoring up the State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    3. Domesticating Democracy?

      • Shoko Yamada
      Pages 35-59

    5. Publicizing Nationalism

      • Caroline Dolive
      Pages 79-102

    6. Pedagogies of Space

      • Iveta Silova, Michael Mead Yaqub, Garine Palandjian
      Pages 103-128

  4. (Re)Imagining the Nation after War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Whose Past, Whose Present?

      • Michelle J. Bellino
      Pages 131-151

    3. Revision for Rights?

      • Federick J. Ngo
      Pages 153-169

    4. Studying the Past in the Present Tense

      • Esther Yogev
      Pages 171-189

    5. History Teachers Imagining the Nation

      • Lisa Y. Faden
      Pages 191-218

  5. (Re)Constructing the Nation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. (Re)Learning Ukrainian

      • Michael Mead Yaqub
      Pages 221-246

    3. The Abc’s of Being Armenian

      • Garine Palandjian
      Pages 247-267

    4. An Unimagined Community?

      • Christine Beresniova
      Pages 269-292

    5. Legitimizing an Authoritarian Regime

      • Karina V. Korostelina
      Pages 293-310

  6. Reflections and Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 311-311
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About this book

This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change. Drawing on a range of analytic strategies, the authors examine history and civics textbooks, and the teaching of such texts, along with other prominent curricular materials—children’s readers, a required text penned by the head of state, a holocaust curriculum, etc.. The authors analyze the uses of history and pedagogy in building, reinforcing and/or redefining the nation and state especially in the light of challenges to its legitimacy. The primary focus is on countries in developing or transitional contexts. Issues include the teaching of democratic civics in a multiethnic state with little history of democratic governance; shifts in teaching about the Khmer Rouge in post-conflict Cambodia; children’s readers used to define national space in former republics of the Soviet Union; the development of Holocaust education in a context where citizens were both victims and perpetuators of violence; the creation of a national past in Turkmenistan; and so forth. The case studies are supplemented by commentary, an introduction and conclusion.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The George Washington University, Washington D.C, USA

    James H. Williams

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation

  • Editors: James H. Williams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-656-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-656-1Published: 08 August 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 344

  • Topics: Education, general

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