The Image of the 1967 War in Israeli History Textbooks as Test Case: Studying an Active Past in a Protracted Regional Conflict

Autor/in	Yogev, Esther
Titel	The Image of the 1967 War in Israeli History Textbooks as Test Case: Studying an Active Past in a Protracted Regional Conflict
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 38 (2012) 2, S. 171-188Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2012.666031
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; World History; War; History Instruction; Textbooks; Time Perspective; Content Analysis; Research Methodology; Discourse Analysis; Interpersonal Relationship; Conflict Resolution; Politics of Education; Critical Theory; Foreign Countries; Jews; Stereotypes; Arabs; Fear; National Security; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weltgeschichte; Krieg; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Zeitbezug; Inhaltsanalyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Diskursanalyse; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Kritische Theorie; Ausland; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Klischee; Arab; Araber; Furcht; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit
Abstract	This article seeks to shed light on the dilemma facing history education in regions beset by a protracted, and as yet unresolved ethno-political conflict. The article will examine this issue by means of a unique test case that observes a dramatic war event in Israeli textbooks. The event in question is the Six-Day War of 1967 and the study of its outcomes. This war stands in the twilight between memory and history and there is an extreme gap between the public history and the formal representation of that war in school textbooks. The question that begs an answer is why such a seminal event in Israeli history is not presented in history textbooks like the country's other wars. The research methodology, "which was conducted on two generations of textbooks", is based upon a comparative discourse analysis. A discussion of the findings contends "that a critical pedagogy approach" to history education might equip adolescent students with more powerful lenses through which to view several plausible scenarios for healing the wounds of the present by means of a rational and grounded perception of the past. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10