Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation

Introduction: reconciliation and history education / Elizabeth A. Cole -- As generations pass: the challenges of long-term reconciliation in history textbooks -- The trajectory of reconciliation through history education in postunification Germany / Julian Dierkes -- Advancing or obstructing reconciliation? Changes in history education and disputes over history textbooks in Japan / Takashi Yoshida -- Representations of aboriginal people in English Canadian history textbooks: toward reconcilation / Penney Clark -- Reconciliation in process -- History teaching and reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Alison Kitson -- The Spanish civil war and Franco dictatorship: the challenges of representing a conflictive past in secondary schools / Rafael Valls -- Historical memory and the limits of peace education: examining Guatemala's memory of silence and the politics of curriculum design / Elizabeth Oglesby -- Reconciliation jeopardized, undone or not yet attained: aspirational and counter-reconciliatory cases -- History and myth in the Soviet Empire and the Russian Republic / Thomas Sherlock -- On the use and abuse of of Korea's past : an inquiry into history teaching and reconciliation / Roland Bleiker -- The role of history textbooks in shaping collective identities in India and Pakistan / Thomas Sherlock and Jon Dorschner -- Afterward / Audrey Chapman -- Contributors

Introduction: history education and sociopolitical reconciliation / Elizabeth A. Cole -- As generations pass: the challenges of long-term reconciliation in history textbooks -- The trajectory of reconciliation through history education in post-unification Germany / Julian Dierkes -- Teaching the Pacific War in Japanese secondary schools / Takashi Yoshida -- Canadian history textbooks and the portrayal of Canada's first nations / Penney Clark -- Reconciliation in process -- History teaching and reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Alison Kitson -- The civil war and Franco dictatorship in Spanish secondary school history textbooks / Rafael Valls -- Education and the politics of history in Guatemala: integrating "memory of silence" into the curriculum? / Elizabeth Oglesby -- Reconciliation jeopardized, undone or not yet attained: aspirational and counter-reconciliatory cases -- Secondary school history texts: the case of Russia / Thomas Sherlock -- From confrontation to cooperation in the two Koreas: the role of history education in promoting reconciliation / Roland Bleiker -- History education and reconciliation issues in contemporary India and Pakistan / Thomas Sherlock and Jon Dorschner -- Afterward / Audrey Chapman -- Contributors