War in textbooks.

Autor/in	Guichard, Sylivie
Titel	War in textbooks.
Quelle	Aus: Fuchs, Eckhardt (Hrsg.); Bock, Annekatrin (Hrsg.): The Palgrave handbook of textbook studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2018) S. 317-328 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 325-328
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-1-137-53141-4; 978-1-137-53142-1
DOI	10.1057/978-1-137-53142-1
Schlagwörter	Schulbuch; Krieg; Geschichtsunterricht; Darstellung
Abstract	In 1935, E.C. Walker observed that 'textbooks are usually at their best [...] on warlike matters'. According to this British historian, tales of war 'have undoubtedly usurped an unwarrantable position in our books and teaching' (Walker in Marsden 2000, p. 31). There has for a long time been an interest in how history in general and war in particular are depicted in textbooks. In the first half of the twentieth century, critics pointed towards the dangers of nationalist education and 'poisonous history' that were propagating lies and hate (Marsden 2000). After the First World War, international organisations such as the League of Nations and later UNESCO began scrutinising textbook content, particularly that of history textbooks, and the ways in which they depicted conflicts, wars, the 'nation' (see Carrier in this volume), and its 'enemy' or 'enemies'. The assumption was and remains that textbooks containing prejudices contribute to fuelling conflict while well-balanced books support the attainment or maintenance of peace. Although these processes depend on the textbook content as a whole, wars have a particular role to play, as demonstrated by recent literature on the representation of war in textbooks. However, this chapter is not a comprehensive review; it modestly seeks to map the broad trends in research on this topic over the last 20 years 1 and is restricted to history textbooks as these are the focus of most studies. 2 It shows how scholars of the last two decades have addressed the representation of wars in history textbooks by examining the types of studies conducted, their methods, and theoretical backgrounds and will propose possible routes for further research.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2019/1