The Cold War in the Classroom - International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today's history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point to ambivalence, vagueness and contradictions in textbook narratives understood to be echoes of societal and academic controversies. Others focus on teachers and the history classroom, showing how unresolved political issues create tensions in history education. They render visible how teachers struggle to handle these challenges by pretending that what they do is 'just history'. The contributions to this book unveil how teachers, backgrounding the political inherent in all memory practices, often nourish the illusion that the history in which they are engaged is all about addressing the past with a reflexive and disciplined approach.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Barbara Christophe • Peter Gautschi • Robert Thorp
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	459
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-011998-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Children's & Educational > Humanities > History > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Children's Fiction & Fun Promotions
LSN:	3-03-011998-X
Barcode:	9783030119980

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