Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and ReconciliationIntroduction: history education and sociopolitical reconciliation / Elizabeth A. Cole -- As generations pass: the challenges of long-term reconciliation in history textbooks -- The trajectory of reconciliation through history education in post-unification Germany / Julian Dierkes -- Teaching the Pacific War in Japanese secondary schools / Takashi Yoshida -- Canadian history textbooks and the portrayal of Canada's first nations / Penney Clark -- Reconciliation in process -- History teaching and reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Alison Kitson -- The civil war and Franco dictatorship in Spanish secondary school history textbooks / Rafael Valls -- Education and the politics of history in Guatemala: integrating "memory of silence" into the curriculum? / Elizabeth Oglesby -- Reconciliation jeopardized, undone or not yet attained: aspirational and counter-reconciliatory cases -- Secondary school history texts: the case of Russia / Thomas Sherlock -- From confrontation to cooperation in the two Koreas: the role of history education in promoting reconciliation / Roland Bleiker -- History education and reconciliation issues in contemporary India and Pakistan / Thomas Sherlock and Jon Dorschner -- Afterward / Audrey Chapman -- Contributors |
Contents
Reconciliation and History Education | 1 |
As Generations Pass The Challenges of LongTerm Reconciliation in History Textbooks | 29 |
The Trajectory of Reconciliation through History Education in Postunification Germany | 31 |
Advancing or Obstructing Reconciliation? Changes in History Education and Disputes over History Textbooks in Japan | 51 |
Representations of Aboriginal People in English Canadian History Textbooks Toward Reconciliation | 81 |
Reconciliation in Process | 121 |
History Teaching and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland | 123 |
The Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship The Challenges of Representing a Conflictive Past in Secondary Schools | 155 |
Reconciliation Jeopardized Undone or Not Yet Attained Aspirational and CounterReconciliatory Cases | 203 |
History and Myth in the Soviet Empire and the Russian Republic | 205 |
On the Use and Abuse of Koreas Past An Inquiry into History Teaching and Reconciliation | 249 |
The Role of History Textbooks in Shaping Collective Identities in India and Pakistan | 275 |
Afterword | 317 |
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About the Contributors | 343 |
Historical Memory and the Limits of Peace Education Examining Guatemalas Memory of Silence and the Politics of Curriculum Design | 175 |
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