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Gabowitsch, Mischa – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2023
This article is based on a bibliographical data set of over 2,600 history textbooks from the post-1945 Soviet Union and eleven out of its fifteen successor states, including books on international, national, and regional or local history. Among these, it analyzes the illustrations used in 450 books that cover the period of the Second World War.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Bibliometrics, History Instruction
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Sungur, Hasan – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The primary purpose of this article is to analyze how the origin of the Cold War is represented in Turkish history textbooks for general secondary school education for the twelfth grade. The author examined three history textbooks, which are only approved by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) for teaching the course of Contemporary Turkish…
Descriptors: War, World History, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
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Yarlykova, Mariya; Xunda, Yu – Education and Society, 2021
This article examines uniform standardized history education in Russia. It focuses primarily on the process of designing unified national history textbooks in 2013-2017, and also examines the educational reform that followed this process, along with the role of Russian society in the formulation of the textbook's content. The new…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbooks, Educational Change, Patriotism
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Naudžiuniene, Akvile – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
In the 1960s Soviet regime in Lithuania introduced through education a concept of "a new man". This "new man" represented the idealistic vision of the Soviet citizen, thus he had to be indoctrinated with the specific set of values. History as a value-oriented discipline at schools, including both humanitarian and social…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Propaganda, Social Systems, Political Attitudes
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Perrotta, Katherine; Bohan, Chara Haeussler – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Historical empathy is a critical aspect of history and social science education that has its roots in the inquiry-based education movements of the twentieth century. Although the term "historical empathy" is not specifically mentioned in most history curriculum documents in the United States, dozens of "new social studies"…
Descriptors: Empathy, Educational History, History Instruction, Social Studies
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Wansink, Bjorn; Zuiker, Itzél; Wubbels, Theo; Kamman, Maurits; Akkerman, Sanne – Teaching History, 2017
Bjorn Wansink and his co-authors have aligned their teaching of a recent and controversial historical issue--the Cold War--in the light of a contemporary incident. This article demonstrates a means of ensuring that students understand that different cultures' views of their shared past are nuanced, rather than monolithic--a different concept in…
Descriptors: International Relations, History Instruction, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Historical Interpretation
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Holmes, Larry E. – European Education, 2020
Based on oral and written testimony of pupils and teachers, this essay examines the lived educational experience of the school-age cohort of children in Stalin's Russia from 1931 to 1945. The state alone determined the structure and curricula of the nation's schools. However, Soviet youngsters, their parents, and teachers responded to the center's…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Educational History, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Ammert, Niklas; Sharp, Heather – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2016
This article presents a comparative analysis of pupils' activities dealing with the Cold War in Swedish and Australian history textbooks. By focusing on textbook activities to which pupils respond in relation to their learning of a particular topic, this study identifies knowledge types included in a selection of history textbooks. The study also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Social Systems, Political Attitudes
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Ahmad, Iftikhar – Journal of International Social Studies, 2017
American and global history curriculum frameworks for high schools across the 50 states generally present the topic of the Cold War from the Western political perspective and contain material about the impact of the US-Soviet ideological rivalry on American society. This article argues that since the Cold War impacted the lives of people in the…
Descriptors: War, Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Sogrin, V. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
The teaching and public dissemination of Russian history in post-Soviet historiography has been shaped by a variety of approaches, including state-sponsored interpretations, views expressed in mass culture, and the work of academic historians. In this article, the author employs a specific method of differentiation to distinguish his present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Subcultures, History Instruction, Historiography
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Evans, Kelly J.; Welch, Jeanie M. – History Teacher, 2015
Access to primary sources is one of the cornerstones of historical research. Until the arrival of the Internet and digitization, many primary sources were available only in large research libraries and archives, and students and scholars had to travel to the institutions holding these sources in order to do research. This situation has changed…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Primary Sources, Internet, International Relations
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Zadora, Anna – Education and Society, 2015
The extremely complex relationship between mental and spatial boundaries in Eastern Europe is visible in the matter of the border between Belarus and Poland, between Eastern and Western Europe, between the European Union and the Russian spheres of influence. Historically, Russia's imperial policy towards to North-Western Province (nowadays…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
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Kimber M. Quinney – History Teacher, 2018
Historians of American foreign relations are continuing to expand the ways in which they approach the Cold War. The range of perspectives has evolved thanks to the influence of emerging fields and new emphases in history. The end of the Cold War revealed the many ways in which the conflict was a protracted global war. But it also brought a renewed…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Immigration, Teaching Methods
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McKenzie, Brian A. – History Teacher, 2014
Born-digital sources are, in fact, already old enough to fall into the domain of traditional, albeit recent, history. Bulletin Board Systems date from the 1980s. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) launched the first website and server in 1990. Websites and the new digital media are cultural artefacts. Archivists and librarians…
Descriptors: Social Media, History Instruction, Computer Simulation, Primary Sources
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Dietsch, Johan – European Education, 2012
The article examines how Ukrainian history textbooks dealt with the Holocaust between independence and 2006. The analysis reveals two major, conflicting narratives about the Holocaust, though both externalize and relativize the Holocaust. As a template for understanding genocide, the Holocaust was applied to the Soviet-imposed 1932-33 famine in…
Descriptors: Jews, Foreign Countries, Death, Historians
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