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Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty lessons

Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty lessons

Dierkes, Julian

Paperback

Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGerman History

ISBN10: 0415667232
ISBN13: 9780415667234
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 1 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction?

History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national identities. Because the content of history education was controlled by different actors, history education materials framed national identity in very different ways. In Japan, where the curriculum was controlled by bureaucrats bent on maintaining their purported neutrality, materials focused on the empirical building blocks of history (who? where? what?) at the expense of discussions of historical responsibility. In East Germany, where party cadres controlled the curriculum, students were taught that World War II was a capitalist aberration. In (West) Germany, where teachers controlled the curriculum, students were taught the lessons of shame and then regeneration after historians turned away from grand national narratives.

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