Controversial history education in Asian contexts /

Other Authors: Baildon, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016, c2014.
Series:Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: controversy, history, and history education in Asia / Loh Kah Seng, Mark Baildon, Ivy Maria Lim, Gül Inanç, and Junaidah Jaffar
  • Teaching controversial issues in the classroom: the exciting potential of disciplinary history / Stuart Foster
  • The battle over memory of the nation: whose national history? / Helen Ting
  • The other side of silence: religion and conflict in Indian textbooks / Deepa Nair
  • How can we teach the old foe's wounds? Analysis of descriptions of the Japanese occupation and the atomic bombs in Vietnamese and ingaporean textbooks / Eisuke Saito, Theresa Alviar-Martin and Khong Thi Diem Hang
  • Constructing the nation: portrayals of national identity in Singapore's school textbook narratives of the Japanese occupation / Khatera Khamsi and Paul Morris
  • Japanese textbooks and the Asia-Pacific War: apportioning blame / Jean-Louis Margolin
  • Representing the war in Manga / Karl Ian Cheng Chua
  • Between remembering and protecting: introduction of cultural heritage into Singapore's primary social studies syllabus 2012 / Gül Inanç
  • Academic controversy and Singapore history: context, teachers and subpublics / Loh Kah Seng and Junaidah Jaffar
  • Teaching of historical controversies using the SAC approach: a case of history teachers in Singapore / Ivy Maria Lim
  • A disciplinary approach to teaching historical controversy in Singapore's schools: the case of the Internal Security Act / Mark Baildon and Suhaimi Afandi
  • Reflection on university teaching of the Nanjing controversy / Jason Lim
  • Overcoming the "practicality ethic" / Denis Mootz
  • Diversity and controversy in the facilitated classroom / Sue Goodney Lea and Taiyi Sun.