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History Education in the News
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , victory , truth , the past , Textbook , Texas , Stalin , Soviet Union , Soviet , schools , Russia , Red Army , Putin , Nazi Germany , Medvedev , mass crime , Katyn , history , gulag , Georgians , Georgia , deportation , communism , civil war , Bolshevik , 20th century
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Source: Nzherald; July 1, 2010
Stalin may get a makeover in a new school textbook, writes Gwynne Dyer. The Georgians took down the last statue of Stalin last week. There used to be thousands of such statues all across the old Soviet Union, but the Communists themselves tore almost all of them down after the great dictator and mass murderer died in 1953.
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Posted by Trainee in United States , UN , the past , teachers , students , Soviet Union , South Korea , Korea , history education , history , democracy
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Source: The Korea Herald; June 28,2010
Korean War veteran Ahn Su-ok, 76, feels disheartened when he finds that young people have no idea about the sacrifices he and his comrades made during the 1950-53 war. He says the freedom they enjoy should not be taken for granted. With the nation commemorating the 60th anniversary of the fratricidal war Thursday, Ahn underscored that education about the war should be strengthened to remember the blood and sweat soldiers shed for the country.
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , the past , The Ministry of Education , Textbooks , Textbook , Jews , Israel , holocaust , history , events , curriculum
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Source: Haaretz; June 28,2010
Education Ministry says it takes 20-30 years to arrive at a historical perspective suitable for teaching young students.The first Lebanon war and the Oslo Accords are missing from Israeli history textbooks, Haaretz has learned, while more recent events, such as the signing of the peace agreement with Jordan, are included.
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Posted by Trainee in USA , United States , the past , the constitution , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , syllabus , students , Stalin , Soviet Union , Soviet , schools , Russia , identity , gulag , Founding Fathers , events , Europe , education , curriculum , communism , Cold War , church , China , British
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Source:BBC; June 28,2010
Why rewrite history books - to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative for the good of the nation, asks David Cannadine in his Point of View column.
According to a newspaper report last week, the Russian authorities have recently gathered together a group of academics to draw up a school textbook that would present an approved version of the complex and controversial events that make up Russian history.
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , wartime , UK , The Ministry of Education , the constitution , teachers , schools , Sarkozy , nazis , NATO , identity , history , historian , globalisation , France , elections , education , de Gaulle , curriculum , conservative
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Source: Bloomberg; 24 June 2010
Seventy years after issuing his call for France to defy the Vichy collaborationist regime, Charles de Gaulle is again dividing the French. The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose political party is descended from the World War II general’s followers, has included De Gaulle’s wartime memoirs in the curriculum for next year’s high-school literary classes. Sarkozy is in London today to commemorate De Gaulle’s June 18, 1940, radio broadcast urging a defeated France not to give up.
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Posted by Trainee in United nations , UNESCO , UN , teachers , syllabus , students , secondary school , schools , integration , history , historian , heritage , education , conference , African , Africa
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Source: The Southern Times; June 24, 2010
Johannesburg – United Nations historians, education specialists and governments are now developing a common history syllabus for schools across the African continent in an effort to ensure that African youth learn about their common heritage. The new syllabus is to be based on the book entitled 'General History of Africa', an eight-volume series written from an African perspective and published by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
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Posted by Trainee in terrorism , technology , teachers , September 11 , history , curriculum , culture , conservative , Australia , association , 21st century
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Source: smh; 21 June 2010
HISTORY teachers say terrorism, popular culture, technology and globalisation should be included in the national curriculum to make the subject more interesting and relevant to students. The History Teachers Association of Australia has criticised the proposed history subjects for years 11 and 12 as too conservative, repetitive and dated.
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Posted by Trainee in WWII , World War II , USRR , the past , Stalinism , Stalin , Soviet Union , Soviet , Russia , propaganda , Law , history , historian
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Source:oD Russia; June 21, 2010
Russia’s Duma has been trying to draft a ‘memory law’, in order to protect the Soviet version of the events of World War II from revisionist interpretations. The historian Nikolai Koposov deconstructs the attempts so far. His view is that the proposed law is not only misconceived, but would be unworkable. He also points out that the unspoken agenda behind it is the defence of Stalin and Stalinism. In the end, the law is never going to be the right vehicle for defending historical truths, he concludes.
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Posted by Trainee in the constitution , nationalism , minorities , migration , internet , identity , Hungary , holocaust , history education , history , genocide , Facing History and Ourselves , education , democracy , culture
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Source: The Budapest Report; 17 June 2010
By adapting the scientific understanding of teenagers, how they think, learn, and are moved to action, a successful program of history teaching, called Facing History and Ourselves, has gained prominence internationally. Adaptable to all regions, a basis for this method is to draw on the parallels with clearest modern tragedy from Holocaust Education. The focus of Holocaust Education in Hungary, and for Genocide Studies elsewhere, is different and in many ways more complex than in the US. For Facing this is not news.
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Source: BBC News; 14 Juni 2010
The Conservatives were once sceptical about whether the state could and should promote a shared sense of British identity. But their views are changing.
Before Gordon Brown left Downing Street, he tried to start a national discussion about what Britishness is, which included a national roadshow.
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