Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts (Paperback)

Section 1: Settings  1. Introduction: Controversy, History, and History Education in Asia  Loh Kah Seng, Mark Baildon, Ivy Maria Lim, Gul ?nanc, and Junaidah Jaffar  2. Teaching Controversial Issues in the Classroom: The Exciting Potential of Disciplinary History  Stuart Foster  Section 2: Controversies in History Textbooks  3. The Battle Over Memory of the Nation: Whose National History?  Helen Ting  4. The Other Side of Silence: Religion and Conflict in Indian Textbooks  Deepa Nair  5. How Can We Teach the Old Foe’s Wounds? Analysis of Descriptions of the Japanese Occupation and the Atomic Bombs in Vietnamese and Singaporean Textbooks  Eisuke Saito, Theresa Alviar-Martin and Khong Thi Diem Hang  6. Constructing the Nation: Portrayals of National Identity in Singapore’s School Textbook Narratives of the Japanese Occupation   Khatera Khamsi and Paul Morris  7. Japanese Textbooks and the Asia-Pacific War: Apportioning Blame  Jean-Louis Margolin  8. Representing the War in Manga  Karl Ian Cheng Chua  9. Between Remembering and Protecting: Introduction of Cultural Heritage into Singapore’s Primary Social Studies Syllabus 2012  Gul ?nanc  Section 3: Teaching Historical Controversy  10. Academic Controversy and Singapore History: Context, Teachers and Subpublics  Loh Kah Seng and Junaidah Jaffar  11. Teaching of Historical Controversies using the SAC Approach: A Case of History Teachers in Singapore  Ivy Maria Lim  12. A Disciplinary Approach to Teaching Historical Controversy in Singapore’s Schools: The Case of the Internal Security Act  Mark Baildon and Suhaimi Afandi  13. A Reflection on University Teaching of the Nanjing Controversy  Jason Lim  14. Overcoming the ‘Practicality Ethic’  Denis Mootz  15. Diversity and Controversy in the Facilitated Classroom  Sue Goodney Lea and Taiyi Sun