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Elements of War and Peace in History Education in the US and Japan: A Case Study Comparison
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Langager, Mark – Journal of Peace Education, 2009
History praxis can transform perceptions of the "other" by reshaping ideas about events transpiring between groups. Nevertheless, peace education research has rarely examined history teaching. This article addresses the potential for teaching peace through history teaching. After laying out a conceptual framework for understanding the…
Descriptors: Peace, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, History Instruction
Tragic Pages: How the GDR, FRG and Japan Processed Their War History--Lessons for Education for Peace. Peace Education Miniprints No. 39.
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Aspeslagh, Robert – 1992
This document describes the ways in which Japan and the German nations have taught the history of World War II. According to the document, the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) took a pro-communist and anti-fascist approach to the subject. At the same time, the Western Allies pressured the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to institute a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, History Instruction, Peace
War, Nation, Memory: International Perspectives on World War II in School History Textbooks. Research in Curriculum and Instruction
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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