History Education and Reconciliation

The legacy of crimes committed during the Second World War in East Asia is still a stumbling block for reconciliation and trustful cultural relations between South Korea, China and Japan. The presentation of this issue in history school books is in the focus of a heated public and academic debate. This book written by historians and pedagogues from the three countries offers insight into the construction of historical narratives that are often nation-centered and foster exclusive identity patterns. However, the essays also reveal approaches to a more inclusive regional concept of East Asian history that puts the textbook debate into the wider framework of transitional justice.

Autorentext

Un-suk Han is a Visiting Professor of Tübingen University (Germany). His main research areas are the German question and German reunification, reconciliation and history education in Europe and East Asia. Takahiro Kondo is professor of Civic Education at Waseda University (Japan). His special interest is in the controversy over history teaching in East Asia. He received grants for conducting comparative studies on this topic in Germany and Austria. Biao Yang is Associate Professor of History at the East China Normal University in Shanghai (China). His research and teaching interests include issues of history education and reconciliation. Falk Pingel is associated fellow of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig (Germany). He has conducted comparative textbook projects in Israel/Palestine, East Asia, South Africa, and the Balkans.

Inhalt
Contents: Falk Pingel: Introduction Un-suk Han: Japanese Colonial Domination and the Second World War - Politics of Remembrance in South Korea, 1945-2011 Hiroto Ide: The Development of History Teaching in Korea Sei-yoon Chang: The Current History Education Curriculum and the System of Textbook Authorization in Korea Atsuko Kawakita: The Culture of Remembrance in Contemporary Japan: International Historical Issues in the Japanese Mass Media Ritsu Ijuin: Japan's World History Education and the Significance of Sadao Nishijima's Theory of the East Asian World Biao Yang: China in Japan's History Teaching Yueqin Li: Teaching Chinese-Japanese Relations in History Classes of Chinese Secondary Schools Ju-back Shin: The Second World War in World History Textbooks of Korea, China and Japan Ping Bu: Historical Perceptions: Within the Border or beyond the Border? Takahiro Kondo: Progress in Dialogues on History in East Asia and Future Perspectives Jae-jeong Chung: Experiencing the Writing of a Joint History Textbook for Korean and Japanese Students Kyung-seok Park: Remembering Wars: War Memorial Halls and Historical Disputes in Northeast Asia.