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Home > Resources > For Educators and Students > Teaching the Violent Past: ONLINE BOOK COMPANION |
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Teaching the Violent Past: ONLINE BOOK COMPANION
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Teaching the Violent Past
WELCOMEThis online companion to Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation (Rowman & Littlefield, September 2007) provides a general overview of the edited volume that is based on a five-year international project sponsored by the Carnegie Council. The book and the resources presented here look at how a society deals with its violent past and issues related to the process of reconciliation and the teaching of history in schools.
Using nine case studies, Teaching the Violent Past examines the relationship between how history is taught and the slow process of reconciliation between former enemies in post-Soviet Russia, Northern Ireland, North and South Korea, Canada, Pakistan and India, Japan, Spain, Guatemala, and Germany. The contributors explore the meaning of reconciliation for each of their distinct conflicts. They then examine history textbooks, the politics of post-conflict high school history education, and the teaching of difficult events in a nation's past such as civil and international wars, genocide, and mistreatment of indigenous peoples. The chapter authors are scholars in the fields of political science, history, sociology, human rights, education, and international relations.
Since history education is an important and pervasive factor in the formation of civic identity, how histories of violent conflict are taught and balanced with the need for positive narratives should be a central issue not only for educators but also for those concerned with transitional justice and peace building. Moreover, history education is an important addition to the diplomatic, political, and legal aspects of political reconciliation.
The need to better understand the concept of reconciliation calls for more studies on how history education can foster new relationships with former enemies and new understandings of historical identities. The edited volume and this online companion are intended to meet this need.
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"For anyone interested in transitional justice, national reconstruction
after mass violence, or multicultural politics, Teaching the Violent Past is
a source of insight and wisdom, grounded in compelling case studies of the struggles
over teaching history in Germany, Japan, Canada, Spain, Northern Ireland, and
Guatemala. It includes probing chapters examining ongoing debates over how Russia,
North and South Korea, India and Pakistan should teach their young about the
past so that neither national pride nor psychic wounds ends up fueling new violent
conflicts. This book offers vital examples of efforts to engage students in
critical confrontations with the complexity of the past."
—MARTHA MINOW
Harvard Law School
"Can high school history texts 'facilitate nonviolent coexistence among people
divided by the memory of pain and death'? These case studies from ten countries
are rich in hopeful, cautious, mixed answers. High school history teachers should
take courage from this book, for theirs is a mission not often publicly celebrated:
their part in the healing of the wounds in our body politic. No country should
boast that it has no such wounds."
—DONALD W. SHRIVER, Jr.
President Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary
"Cole provides an indispensable set of readings for anyone interested
in learning how teaching history in the schools relates to healing after violence.
Through their gathered chapters, the authors show how any nation's future relates
to what the next generation learns about its past. Cole's collection offers
a powerful synthesis of multi-national points of view, which, taken together,
show how schools can reshape collective national identities and influence reconciliation."
—SARAH WARSHAUER FREEDMAN
University of California at Berkeley
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