The Palgrave Handbook of Conflict and History Education in the Post-Cold War Era

This Handbook provides a systematic and analytical approach to the various dimensions of international, ethnic and domestic conflict over the uses of national history in education since the end of the Cold War. With an upsurge in political, social and cultural upheaval, particularly since the fall of state socialism in Europe, the importance of history textbooks and curricula as tools for influencing the outlooks of entire generations is thrown into sharp relief. Using case studies from 58 countries, this book explores how history education has had the potential to shape political allegiances and collective identities. The contributors highlight the key issues over which conflict has emerged - including the legacies of socialism and communism, war, dictatorships and genocide - issues which frequently point to tensions between adhering to and challenging the idea of a cohesive national identity and historical narrative. Global in scope, the Handbook will appeal to a diverse academic audience, including historians, political scientists, educationists, psychologists, sociologists and scholars working in the field of cultural and media studies. -- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xlix Introduction: History Education Conflicts Around the World—Backgrounds, Settings, Foci (Luigi Cajani, Simone Lässig, Maria Repoussi)....Pages 1-54 Argentina (Gonzalo de Amézola)....Pages 55-68 Armenia (Philip Gamaghelyan)....Pages 69-80 Australia (Anna Clark)....Pages 81-88 Azerbaijan (Sergey Rumyansev)....Pages 89-99 Belgium (Tessa Lobbes, Kaat Wils)....Pages 101-111 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Katarina Batarilo-Henschen)....Pages 113-127 Bulgaria (Krassimira Daskalova)....Pages 129-142 Burundi (Denise Bentrovato)....Pages 143-153 Canada (Christian Laville)....Pages 155-164 Caribbean (John Hamer)....Pages 165-172 Chile (Rodrigo Henríquez)....Pages 173-182 China (Biao Yang)....Pages 183-188 Croatia (Snježana Koren)....Pages 189-203 Cyprus (Eleftherios Klerides)....Pages 205-220 Czech Republic (Antonie Doležalová)....Pages 221-232 France (Marcus Otto)....Pages 233-244 Georgia (Nino Chikovani)....Pages 245-258 Federal Republic of Germany (Falk Pingel)....Pages 259-268 Greece (Hercules (Iraklis) Millas)....Pages 269-278 India (Michael Gottlob)....Pages 279-288 Iceland (Thorsteinn Helgason)....Pages 289-296 Israel (Eyal Naveh)....Pages 297-307 Italy (Luigi Cajani)....Pages 309-320 Japan (Sven Saaler)....Pages 321-333 Latvia (Daina Bleiere)....Pages 335-349 Lebanon (Nemer Frayha)....Pages 351-361 Malaysia (Helen Ting Mu Hung)....Pages 363-373 Republic of Moldova (Stefan Ihrig)....Pages 375-384 The Netherlands (Maria Grever)....Pages 385-402 New Zealand (Mark Sheehan)....Pages 403-412 Northern Cyprus (Hakan Karahasan, Mehves Beyidoglu Onen)....Pages 413-424 Northern Ireland (Alan McCully)....Pages 425-433 Norway (Bente Aamotsbakken)....Pages 435-445 Pakistan (M. Ayaz Naseem)....Pages 447-456 Palestine (Samira Alayan)....Pages 457-467 Poland (Joanna Wojdon)....Pages 469-485 Romania (Mirela-Luminița Murgescu)....Pages 487-499 Russia (Victor A. Shnirelman)....Pages 501-526 Rwanda (Denise Bentrovato)....Pages 527-539 Senegal (Ibrahima Seck)....Pages 541-552 Serbia (Marko Šuica)....Pages 553-567 Slovakia (Slávka Otčenášová)....Pages 569-577 Slovenia (Vilma Brodnik)....Pages 579-589 South Africa (Johan Wassermann)....Pages 591-604 Spain (Rafael Valls-Montes, Ramón López-Facal)....Pages 605-617 Sudan (Julia Nohn)....Pages 619-628 Sweden (Björn Norlin, Daniel Lindmark)....Pages 629-637 Switzerland (Markus Furrer)....Pages 639-649 Taiwan (Wei-chih Liou)....Pages 651-660 Tatarstan (Marat Gibatdinov)....Pages 661-683 Turkey (Büşra Ersanlı)....Pages 685-694 Ukraine (Polina Verbytska)....Pages 695-706 United Kingdom (Terry Haydn)....Pages 707-715 United States of America (Gary B. Nash, Ross E. Dunn)....Pages 717-727 Venezuela (Tulio Ramírez)....Pages 729-738 Zimbabwe (Marshall Tamuka Maposa)....Pages 739-749 Back Matter ....Pages 751-778 This Handbook provides a systematic and analytical approach to the various dimensions of international, ethnic and domestic conflict over the uses of national history in education since the end of the Cold War. With an upsurge in political, social and cultural upheaval, particularly since the fall of state socialism in Europe, the importance of history textbooks and curricula as tools for influencing the outlooks of entire generations is thrown into sharp relief. Using case studies from 58 countries, this book explores how history education has had the potential to shape political allegiances and collective identities. The contributors highlight the key issues over which conflict has emerged â#x80;#x93; including the legacies of socialism and communism, war, dictatorships and genocide â#x80;#x93; issues which frequently point to tensions between adhering to and challenging the idea of a cohesive national identity and historical narrative. Global in scope, the Handbook will appeal to a diverse academic audience, including historians, political scientists, educationists, psychologists, sociologists and scholars working in the field of cultural and media studies