Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys
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Author | : Julian Beatus Dierkes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135193645 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135193649 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys by : Julian Beatus Dierkes
Book excerpt: How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction?History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national identities. Because the content of history education was controlled by different actors, history education materials framed national identity in very different ways. In Japan, where the curriculum was controlled by bureaucrats bent on maintaining their purported neutrality, materials focused on the empirical building blocks of history (wh.