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Postwar history education in Japan and the Germanys : guilty lessons : a study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University / Julian Dierkes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dierkes, Julian Beatus, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 29.
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
- Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 29
- A study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Japanese--Study and teaching.
- National characteristics, Japanese.
- National characteristics, German--Study and teaching.
- National characteristics, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Japan.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- War and society--Japan--History--20th century.
- War and society.
- War and society--Germany (East)--History.
- War and society--Germany (West)--History.
- Japan--History--Study and teaching--Japan.
- Japan.
- Germany--History--Study and teaching--Germany (East).
- Germany.
- Germany--History--Study and teaching--Germany (West).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- The determinants of portrayals of the nation in history education
- The re-nationalization of history in East German education
- Rationalizing portrayals of the nation in (West) German history education
- Japanese bureaucrats and empiricist textbook historiography
- Portrayals of the nation in Japanese and German history education explained.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-19363-0
- 0-203-86458-1
- 9786613045249
- 1-135-19364-9
- 1-283-04524-9
- 9780203864586
- OCLC:
- 707068588
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