(Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation / / edited by James H. Williams.

This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change. Drawing on a range of analytic strategies, the authors examine history and civics textbooks, and the teaching of such texts, along with other pr...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / James H. Williams
  • Nation, State, School, Textbook / James H. Williams
  • The Mobilization of Historical Consciousness in the Narratives About the Last Argentine Dictatorship / Daniel S. Friedrich
  • Domesticating Democracy? / Shoko Yamada
  • State Formation and Nation Building Through Education / Yeow Tong Chia
  • Publicizing Nationalism / Caroline Dolive
  • Pedagogies of Space / Iveta Silova , Michael Mead Yaqub and Garine Palandjian
  • Whose Past, Whose Present? / Michelle J. Bellino
  • Revision for Rights? / Federick J. Ngo
  • Studying the Past in the Present Tense / Esther Yogev
  • History Teachers Imagining the Nation / Lisa Y. Faden
  • (Re)Learning Ukrainian / Michael Mead Yaqub
  • The Abc’s of Being Armenian / Garine Palandjian
  • An Unimagined Community? / Christine Beresniova
  • Legitimizing an Authoritarian Regime / Karina V. Korostelina
  • Textbooks, Schools, Memory, and the Technologies of National Imaginaries / Noah W. Sobe
  • Strategic “Linguistic Communities” / William C. Brehm
  • School Textbooks and the State of the State / James H. Williams
  • Contributors / James H. Williams
  • Index / James H. Williams.