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History Education and National Identity in East Asia Edward Vickers

History Education and National Identity in East Asia By Edward Vickers

History Education and National Identity in East Asia by Edward Vickers


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Presents a study of the politics of history education in East Asia, analyzes the content of official syllabi and the ways in which authorized explanations have developed in response to changes in domestic and international politics.

History Education and National Identity in East Asia Summary

History Education and National Identity in East Asia by Edward Vickers

Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies.

About Edward Vickers

Edward Vickers is Lecturer in Comparative Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong, and currently resides in Beijing. He has writted articles on the politics of history education in Hong Kong for Compartative Education and The Oxford Review of Education .

Table of Contents

1. History, Politics and Identity in East Asia: An Overview by Edward Vickers2. Nationalism and the State in East Asian Historiography by Edward Vickers and Alisa Jones3. History Curriculum Development in The People's Republic of China by Alisa Jones4. National Identity and the History Curriculum in Taiwan by Liu Mei-hui and Hung Li-Ching5. Politics, Identity and the History Curriculum in Hong Kong by Edward Vickers and Flora Kan6. The History Text: Framing Ethno-Cultural and Civic Nationalism in the Divided Koreas by Chris Wilson and Danton Ford7. History Curriculum Development and Political Change in Singapore by S. Gopinathan and Goh Chor Boon8. History Education and Politicsl Controversy in Post-war Japan by Nozaki Yoshiko9. How Japanese Schools Teach History: A Comparison with England by Peter Cave10. History Curriculum Development in East Asia: Problems, Tensions and Issues by Edward Vickers and Alisa Jones

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NPB9780415948081
9780415948081
0415948088
History Education and National Identity in East Asia by Edward Vickers
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2005-06-05
358
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