Controversial history education in Asian contexts
By: edited by Mark Baildon, Loh Kah Seng, Ivy Maria Lim, Gül Inanç, and Junaidah Jaffar
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780415833523; 9780203753491
Subjects: Asia; History; Textbooks; Study and teaching; Education and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: controversy, history, and history education in Asia / Loh Kah Seng, Mark Baildon, Ivy Maria Lim, Gül Inanç, and Junaidah Jaffar; title: Teaching controversial issues in the classroom: the exciting potential of disciplinary history / Stuart Foster; title: The battle over memory of the nation: whose national history? / Helen Ting; title: The other side of silence: religion and conflict in Indian textbooks / Deepa Nair; title: How can we teach the old foe's wounds? Analysis of descriptions of the Japanese occupation and the atomic bombs in Vietnamese and Singaporean textbooks / Eisuke Saito, Theresa Alviar-Martin and Khong Thi Diem Hang; title: Constructing the nation: portrayals of national identity in Singapore's school textbook narratives of the Japanese occupation / Khatera Khamsi and Paul Morris; title: Japanese textbooks and the Asia-Pacific War: apportioning blame / Jean-Louis Margolin; title: Representing the war in Manga / Karl Ian Cheng Chua; title: Between remembering and protecting: introduction of cultural heritage into Singapore's primary social studies syllabus 2012 / Gül Inanç; title: Academic controversy and Singapore history: context, teachers and subpublics / Loh Kah Seng and Junaidah Jaffar; title: Teaching of historical controversies using the SAC approach: a case of history teachers in Singapore / Ivy Maria Lim; title: A disciplinary approach to teaching historical controversy in Singapore's schools: the case of the Internal Security Act / Mark Baildon and Suhaimi Afandi; title: Reflection on university teaching of the Nanjing controversy / Jason Lim; title: Overcoming the "practicality ethic" / Denis Mootz; title: Diversity and controversy in the facilitated classroom / Sue Goodney Lea and Taiyi Sun.