Americans and Russians as representatives of 'Us' and 'Them': contemporary Swedish school history textbooks and their portrayals of the central characters of the Cold War.

Autor/in	Persson, Anders
Titel	Americans and Russians as representatives of 'Us' and 'Them': contemporary Swedish school history textbooks and their portrayals of the central characters of the Cold War.
Quelle	Aus: Christophe, Barbara (Hrsg.); Gautschi, Peter (Hrsg.); Thorp, Robert (Hrsg.): The Cold War in the classroom. International perspectives on textbooks and memory practices. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019) S. 107-135 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Palgrave studies in educational media
Beigaben	Illustration; Literaturangaben S. 133-135
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-030-11998-0; 978-3-030-11999-7
DOI	10.1007/978-3-030-11999-7_6
Schlagwörter	Methode; Amerikabild; Geschichtsunterricht; Methode; Russlandbild; Schulbuch; Ost-West-Konflikt; Schweden; Schulbuch; Geschichtsunterricht; Amerikabild; Ost-West-Konflikt; Russlandbild; Schweden
Abstract	Persson analyses five contemporary Swedish school textbooks in order to understand how they present the USA and the USSR's roles in the Cold War, examining how the superpowers' origins and motives are presented, judgements about their actions offered, and the extent to which they are 'othered', stereotyped or homogenised, criticised or made into objects of identification. Persson draws on Arendt's theory of 'mak(ing) visits' to explore how students might recognise themselves in the American or Russian people, arguing that to promote personal growth (and not just produce nationalists), textbooks should encourage recognition with both oppressors and victims. Persson aims to prompt further study on how the most recent shifts in political opinion and Swedish selfconception have affected textbook narratives.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2020/2