NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
War, Nation, Memory: International Perspectives on World War II in School History Textbooks. Research in Curriculum and Instruction
Direct linkDirect link
Crawford, Keith A., Ed.; Foster, Stuart J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, War, Memory
Facing the Ugly Past: A Need for Glasnost in the West.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Schwartz, David – Social Education, 1989
Urges the frank examination of painful episodes in Western and other open societies' recent history to achieve glasnost and historical honesty. Cites the Klaus Barbie trial and the accompanying embarrassment for both France and the United States. Points out distortion in Japanese textbooks on the pre- and World War II years and in U.S. textbooks…
Descriptors: Asian History, Elementary Secondary Education, European History, Foreign Countries
One Man's Invasion Is Another Man's Advance: National History in Japan and Korea.
Hurst, G. Cameron, III – 1988
The altering of the presentation of Japan's imperialist adventures in Japanese high school history textbooks reflects a continuing dispute between Japan and her Asian neighbors, as well as between a politically conservative bureaucracy in the Ministry of Education and a historical profession heavily influenced by "progressives" who write…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Foreign Countries, Historiography