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Meyer, Marcus – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2022
The Bunker "Valentin" in Farge, a suburb of Bremen, is one of the biggest relics of armament projects in the Second World War. Although it was built by up to 10,000 forced laborers under brutal conditions leading to a death toll of up to 1,600, it was primarily remembered as a technological masterpiece. This article describes the history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, World History, Crime
Ehrlich, Serguey – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
In the fifteen Russian textbooks of the 1990s examined in this article, the Second World War is subject to three levels of reflection: language, narrative templates, and the representation of contested events. The language used in the textbooks represents an amalgam of Soviet propagandistic clichés and uncritically adopted Western terminology.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Content Analysis
Gabowitsch, Mischa – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2023
This article is based on a bibliographical data set of over 2,600 history textbooks from the post-1945 Soviet Union and eleven out of its fifteen successor states, including books on international, national, and regional or local history. Among these, it analyzes the illustrations used in 450 books that cover the period of the Second World War.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Bibliometrics, History Instruction
Paksuniemi, Merja; Niemisalo, Sari – Education and Society, 2016
To demonstrate how changes in both foreign and domestic environments after the Second World War affected primary education and teacher training in Finland, the article presents a historical picture of the post-war reality of the school system, based on a review of sources that include laws, decrees, curricula, textbooks and previous research. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, War, World History, Foreign Countries
Leitner-Stojanov, Darko – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2019
This article examines the textual and visual content of the first postwar primer in socialist Yugoslav Macedonia in order to understand the messages that it contains relating to techniques of militarization. After outlining the historical context in which this primer was developed, with reference to teachers' memories and archival sources, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Armed Forces, War, World History
Rousmaniere, Kate – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2016
This essay examines the school leadership experiences of an infant school head teacher in Birmingham, England, during the Second World War. Drawing on the letters of Dorothy Walker, the essay offers insights into school leadership wartime deprivations. The impact of an international war on the home front was not head teacher Dorothy Walker's only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Experience
Berman, Daniel; Stoddard, Jeremy – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2022
In the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks against the United States, people immediately compared the attack with the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor sixty years prior. In this article, we explore how US and world history textbooks published shortly after Pearl Harbor and 9/11 depicted and contextualized both events. The textbooks…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Air Transportation, National Security, War
Rury, John L.; Darby, Derrick – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This paper examines the impact of war on African-American education. This question is considered in three different periods: the eras of the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Second World War. Large-scale conflict, such as these instances of total war, can afford historical moments when oppressed groups are able take steps to improve…
Descriptors: War, African American Education, Educational History, United States History
Fedor, Julie – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
This article explores a key claim underpinning Russian official memory politics, namely, the notion that Russia's past (and especially the role it played in the Second World War) is the object of a campaign of "historical falsification" aimed at, among other things, undermining Russian sovereignty, especially by distorting young people's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, War, World History
Klymenko, Lina – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2016
This article explores the theoretical understanding of the relation between school history textbooks and the state-led construction of national identity. It does this by conceptualizing a history textbook as an assembly of historical narratives that provide young readers with an opportunity to identify with the national community in which they…
Descriptors: Textbooks, History Instruction, Nationalism, Patriotism
Cooke, Gillian – Research Matters, 2020
Based on an exceptional cache of documents charting Cambridge Assessment's examinations in 1938, this article uncovers evidence of the board's early, pioneering work with displaced learners. The newly discovered documents form part of an archive collection already catalogued, relating to the work of Jack Roach who was responsible for the Cambridge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Archives, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Topolovcan, Tomislav; Dubovicki, Snježana – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2019
Using a theoretical-critical and historical approach, this paper analyses the implications of the Cold War in national curricula and educational reforms of the second half of the 20th century with emphasis on the 21st century. The context of the time after the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War is shown, as well as the social and…
Descriptors: War, Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Suh, Yonghee; Yurita, Makito; Lin, Lin; Metzger, Scott – Journal of International Social Studies, 2013
Informed by recurring international controversies, this study explores representations of the Second World War as official history in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean secondary-level textbooks and theorizes about how they influence and function as collective memories about this time period. Using grounded theory, it finds that the examined Japanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, History Instruction, Textbook Content
Balfour, Beatrice Jane Vittoria – Gender and Education, 2016
This article investigates whether the memories of women's movements that grew out of the Italian Resistance to the Nazi-Fascist Regime during the Second World War have left any legacy to women teachers in early childhood education. The article focuses on the case of internationally renowned and high-quality schools for young children, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Activism, Social Change
Han, Un-suk, Ed.; Kondo, Takahiro, Ed.; Yang, Biao, Ed.; Pingel, Falk, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Role of Education, Politics of Education