Designing History in East Asian Textbooks: Identity Politics and Transnational Aspirations (Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415602521 ISBN 13: 9780415602525

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This book analyses the efforts throughout East Asia to deploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular in order to shape notions of identity. The chapters also examine the trend of ‘common textbook initiatives’, which have recently emerged in East Asia with the aim of helping to defuse tensions arguably fuelled by existing practices of mutual (mis)representation. These are analysed in relation to the East Asian political context, and compared with previous and ongoing endeavours in other parts of the world, particularly Europe, which have been keenly observed by East Asian practitioners. Written by a group of international education experts, chapters discuss the enduring focus on the role of curricula in inculcating homogenous visions of the national self, and indeed homogenized visions of significant 'others'.

Including contributions from scholars and curriculum developers involved personally in the writing of national and multi-national history textbooks this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian education, Asian history and comparative education studies.

Gotelind Müller is Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany

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Gotelind Müller is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415602521
• ISBN 13: 9780415602525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Mueller Gotelind