Research Catalog

Title

The Cold War in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and memory practices / Barbara Christophe, Peter Gautschi, Robert Thorp, editors.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Christophe, Barbara
• Gautschi, Peter
• Thorp, Robert

Description

xxx, 459 pages : illustrations (black and white); 22 cm.

Summary

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 globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point to ambivalence, vagueness and contradictions in textbook narratives understood to be echoes of societal and academic controversies. Others focus on teachers and the history classroom, showing how unresolved political issues create tensions in history education. They render visible how teachers struggle to handle these challenges by pretending that what they do is 'just history'. The contributions to this book unveil how teachers, backgrounding the political inherent in all memory practices, often nourish the illusion that the history in which they are engaged is all about addressing the past with a reflexive and disciplined approach. -- Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in educational media

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in educational media.

Alternative Title

International perspectives on textbooks and memory practices

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Schulbuchforschung
• Ost-West-Konflikt
• Historiography
• Cold War > (1945-1989)
• History, Modern > Historiography
• Lehrmittel
• Geschichtsunterricht
• History, Modern > 20th century > Historiography
• Cold War > Historiography
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Barbara Christophe -- PART I Textbook Memories -- Textbook Memories of the Cold War: Introduction to Part I / Barbara Christophe -- Manufacturing Coherence: How American textbooks incorporate diverse perspectives on the origins of the Cold War / Eva Fischer -- Between radical shifts and Persistent Uncertainties: The Cold War in Russian history textbooks / Aleksandr Khodnev -- The emergence of a multipolar world: Decentering the Cold War in Chinese history textbooks / Lisa Dyson -- 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 -- Images and Imaginings of the Cold War - with a focus on the Swiss view / Markus Furrer -- Between non-human and individual agents: The attribution of agency in chapters on the Cold War in Flemish history textbooks / Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse -- The Cold War and the Polish question / Joanna Wojdon -- The Cold War in South African history textbooks / Linda Chisholm and David Fig -- Dictatorship and the Cold War in official Chilean history textbooks / Teresa Oteiza and Claudia Castro -- PART II Teachers' Memories -- Teacher's memories and the Cold War: Introduction to Part II / Robert Thorp and Barbara Christophe -- Ambivalence and the illusion of hegemony: Remembering the Cold War in Germany and Switzerland / Barbara Christophe -- 1968 in German-speaking Switzerland: Controversies and interpretations / Nadine Ritzer -- Reconciling opposing discourses: Narrating and teaching the Cold War in an East-German classroom / Eva Fischer -- PART III Memory Practices in the Classroom Part III Memory Practices in the Classroom -- Introduction to Part III: Memory Practices in the Classroom / Peter Gautschi and Barbara Christophe -- Selecting, stretching and missing the frame: Teachers and students from Germany and Switzerland make sense of the Cold War / Barbara Christophe -- Learning from others: Considerations within history didactics on introducing the 'Cold War' in lessons in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland / Peter Gautschi and Hans Utz -- Pedagogical entanglements and the Cold War: A comparative study on opening history lessons on the Cold War in Sweden and Switzerland

Call Number

JFD 20-2825

ISBN

• 9783030119980
• 303011998X
• 9783030119997 (canceled/invalid)
• 3030119998 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1112380588

Title

The Cold War in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and memory practices / Barbara Christophe, Peter Gautschi, Robert Thorp, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in educational media

Palgrave studies in educational media.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Christophe, Barbara, editor.

Gautschi, Peter, editor.

Thorp, Robert, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Cold War in the classroom. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 9783030119997 (OCoLC)1125947927

Research Call Number

JFD 20-2825