What shall we tell the children? : international perspectives on school history textbooks / edited by Stuart J. Foster and Keith A. Crawford.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: the critical importance of history textbook research / Stuart Foster and Keith Crawford -- Defining the boundaries of "Chineseness": Tibet, Mongolia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in mainland history textbooks / Edward Vickers -- Culture wars : Japanese history textbooks and the construction of official memory / Keith Crawford -- A gendered national identity : an analysis of North and South Korean textbooks / Misook Kim -- Beyond the national and the transnational : perspectives of WWII in U.S.A, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, and English school history textbooks / Jason Nicholls -- The construction of European identity 1945-present / Yasemin Soysal -- From evasion to a crucial tool of moral and political education : teaching national socialism and the Holocaust in Germany / Falk Pingel -- Whose history? portrayal of immigrant groups in U.S. history textbooks, 1800-present / Stuart Foster -- The islamization of Pakistani social studies textbooks / Yvette Claire Rosser -- Reconstructing the past, constructing the future in Israeli textbooks / Dan Porat -- Control through education? the politicization of Israeli and Palestinian school textbooks / Jonathan Kriener -- The dynamics of history textbook production during South Africa's educational transformation / Rob Siebörger.

This text illustrates that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse, textbooks are artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order.

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