The Cold War in the Classroom International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices /

The Cold War in the Classroom International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices /

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today's history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the g...

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Other Authors: Christophe, Barbara (Editor), Gautschi, Peter (Editor), Thorp, Robert (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Educational Media,
Subjects:
Teachers > Training of.
Education > History.
Communication.
Russia > History.
Europe, Eastern > History.
Soviet Union > History.
Collective memory.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
History of Education.
Media and Communication.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Memory Studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction; Barbara Christophe
  • PART I. Textbook Memories
  • Chapter 2. Textbook Memories of the Cold War: Introduction to Part I; Barbara Christophe
  • Chapter 3. Manufacturing Coherence: How American textbooks incorporate diverse perspectives on the origins of the Cold War; Eva Fischer
  • Chapter 4. Between radical shifts and Persistent Uncertainties: The Cold War in Russian history textbooks; Aleksandr Khodnev
  • Chapter 5. The emergence of a multipolar world: Decentering the Cold War in Chinese history textbooks; Lisa Dyson
  • Chapter 6. Americans and Russians as representatives of Us and Them. Contemporary Swedish school history textbooks and their portrayal of the central characters of the Cold War; Anders Persson
  • Chapter 7. Images and Imaginings of the Cold War - with a focus on the Swiss view; Markus Furrer
  • Chapter 8. Between non-human and individual agents: The attribution of agency in chapters on the Cold War in Flemish history textbooks; Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse.-Chapter 9. The Cold War and the Polish question; Joanna Wojdon
  • Chapter 10. The Cold War in South African history textbooks; Linda Chisholm and David Fig
  • Chapter 11. Dictatorship and the Cold War in official Chilean history textbooks; Teresa Oteiza and Claudia Castro
  • PART II. Teachers' Memories
  • Chapter 12. Teacher's memories and the Cold War: Introduction to Part II; Robert Thorp and Barbara Christophe
  • Chapter 13. Ambivalence and the illusion of hegemony: Remembering the Cold War in Germany and Switzerland; Barbara Christophe
  • Chapter 14. 1968 in German-speaking Switzerland: Controversies and interpretations; Nadine Ritzer
  • Chapter 15. Reconciling opposing discourses: Narrating and teaching the Cold War in an East-German classroom; Eva Fischer
  • PART III. Memory Practices in the Classroom
  • Chapter 16. Introduction to Part III: Memory Practices in the Classroom; Peter Gautschi and Barbara Christophe
  • Chapter 17. Selecting, stretching and missing the frame: Teachers and students from Germany and Switzerland make sense of the Cold War; Barbara Christophe
  • Chapter 18. Learning from others: Considerations within history didactics on introducing the 'Cold War' in lessons in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland; Peter Gautschi and Hans Utz
  • Chapter 19. Pedagogical entanglements and the Cold War: A comparative study on opening history lessons on the Cold War in Sweden and Switzerland.

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