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History Education in the News
News and Discussion on developments in the world of History Education.
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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 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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Posted by Trainee in United States , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , students , slavery , Obama , liberal , history , democracy , curriculum , controversial , conservative , American history
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Source: Times Colonist; 25 May, 2010
NEW YORK - American students will learn more about the virtues of free enterprise, Biblical values and the Confederacy's cause, and less about slavery and civil rights in a controversial new curriculum being pushed through by the Texas school board.
Members of the state's board of education approved a new history and social studies curriculum on Friday for the state's 4.8 million state school students.
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Source: Today's Zaman; 21 April,2010
Two Zen monks, Tanzan and Ekido were walking along a country road that had become extremely muddy after heavy rains. Near a village, they came upon a young woman who was trying to cross the road, but the mud was so deep it would have ruined the silk kimono she was wearing. Tanzan at once picked her up and carried her to the other side.
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Source: Mail Online; 19 April, 2010
For more than half a century, most intelligent children in Britain have grown up to live in the half-darkness of historical ignorance. The result is generations of adults who, having left school, mourn their lack of knowledge about the past but don't know how to remedy it and are soon busy with children of their own.
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Posted by Trainee in The Ministry of Education , Poland , Palestine , Obama , Israelis , Israel , history , historian , events , education , democracy
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Source: Haaretz; April 12, 2010
Last week I flew to Eilat with two young officers of the IDF Spokesperson Unit. One of them inquired what book I was reading. It was Carole Angier's magisterial biography of Primo Levi. "Who is that?" was her immediate response. I couldn't believe at first that a graduate of one the country's best high schools, who had gone through the rigorous selection process - which favors candidates with a wide breadth of general knowledge - had never heard of the Italian-Jewish chemist and his ground-breaking memoir of 11 months in Auschwitz, "If This Is a Man."
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , University , United States , The Ministry of Education , the constitution , Textbooks , Textbook , students , South Korea , reform , reconciliation , Japan , ideology , history , elementary school , democracy , debate , China , Asia , act
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Source: Asia Times; April 9, 2010
In the summer of 2007, 34 Japanese and Korean scholars were selected to participate in the second round of the Japan-South Korea joint history project. Since the release of their report in late March, it is becoming clear that very little progress has been made - many of the same issues from the first round of this project which commenced in 2001 remain unresolved. The first round report was issued in 2005.
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Posted by Trainee in Textbooks , Stalinism , Stalin , Soviet Union , Russia , Putin , Poland , nazis , Katyn , events , Europe , democracy , debate , communism
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Source: The Washington Post; April 6, 2020
In this era of commerce and trade, it often happens that countries that might once have gone to war play out their antagonisms through other means. The immigration debate plays this role in Mexican American relations. For a time, the trade dispute over soft wood lumber (yes, really) fulfilled this function in Canadian American relations: At stake were different attitudes toward the role of government in industry, Canada's sensitivity to American economic power and many other issues, though you wouldn't know it if you weren't paying attention.
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Posted by Trainee in United States , UN , UK , Textbook , students , schools , reform , peace , palestinians , Palestine , Obama , memory , Israelis , Israel , Gaza , European Union , education , democracy , curriculum , conflicts , Canada
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Source: Right Side News; March 15th, 2010
Two years have passed since the horrific massacre of eight young yeshiva students at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem. With the turning of administrations in Washington, and a renewed effort by the Obama administration to focus on "moving peace forward" between the Israelis and Palestinians, we are left to examine the status quo on the ground.
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Source: Todays Zaman, March 2nd 2010
Nowadays my dream is to be able to pay a visit to the recently opened Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile. I am looking at the pictures from the museum and reading every piece of information that I can find about it. Most comments suggest that the museum, which is dedicated to the 31,000 murder, torture and kidnapping victims of the 1973-90 military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, will contribute much to Chilean society in both healing the wounds and also in teaching the value of democracy to the younger generation.
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