(Re)constructing memory : textbooks, identity, nation, and state / edited by James H. Williams, the George Washington University Washington, DC, USA and Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Williams, James H., editor.; Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (Wendy Diana), 1962- editor.
2016
LB3045 .R43 2016eb
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(Re)constructing memory : textbooks, identity, nation, and state / edited by James H. Williams, the George Washington University Washington, DC, USA and Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
ISBN
9789463005098 (electronic book)
9463005099 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-509-8
Published
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2016]
Language
English
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10.1007/978-94-6300-509-8 doi
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LB3045 .R43 2016eb
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371.32
Summary
This book engages readers in thirteen conversations presented by authors from around the world regarding the role that textbooks play in helping readers imagine membership in the nation. Authors' voices come from a variety of contexts - some historical, some contemporary, some providing analyses over time. But they all consider the changing portrayal of diversity, belonging and exclusion in multiethnic and diverse societies where silenced, invisible, marginalized members have struggled to make their voices heard and to have their identities incorporated into the national narrative. The authors discuss portrayals of past exclusions around religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, as they look at the shifting boundaries of insider and outsider. This book is thus about "who we are" not only demographically, but also in terms of the past, especially how and whether we teach discredited pasts through textbooks. The concluding chapters provides ways forward in thinking about what can be done to promote curricula that are more inclusive, critical and positively bonding, in increasingly larger and more inclusive contexts
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Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (Wendy Diana), 1962- editor.
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Foreword to the Series: (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks, Identity, and the Pedagogies and Politics of Imagining Community
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Palimpsest Identities in the Imagining of the Nation:A Comparative Model
Section 1: Who Are We? Textbooks, Visibility, and Membership in the State
Are Mexico's Indigenous People Mexican?: The Exclusion of Diversity from Official Textbooks in Mexico
The Struggle to be Seen: Changing Views of American Indians in U.S. High School History Textbooks
Normalizing Subordination: White Fantasies of Black Identity in Textbooks Intended for Freed Slaves in the American South, 1863-1870
From Ingenious to Ignorant, from Idyllic to Backwards: Representations of Rural Life in Six U.S. Textbooks over Half a Century
"Within the Sound of Silence": A Critical Examination of LGBQ Issues in National History Textbooks
Section 2: Who Are We? Us and Them
The Portrayal of "The Other" in Pakistani and Indian School Textbooks
Asian Bodies, English Values: Creating an Anglophone Elite in British Malaya
History and Civic Education in the Rainbow Nation: Citizenship, Identity, and Xenophobia in the New South Africa
Re-Imagining Brotherhood: Republican Values and Representations of Nationhood in a Diversifying France
Section 3: Who Are We? (Re)Negotiating Complex Identities
Democratic Citizenship Education in Textbooks in Spain and England
Textbook and Identity: A Comparative Study of the Primary Social Education Curricula in Hong Kong and Singapore
Reframing the National Narrative: Curricula Reform and History Textbooks in Turkey's EU Era
Vacuum in the Classroom? Recent Trends in High School History Teaching and Textbooks in Zimbabwe
Conclusions
Defining and Debating the Common "We": Analyses of Citizen Formation beyond the Nation-State Mold
School Textbooks, Us and Them: A Conclusion
Contributors
Index.

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