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> H-ASIA
> Mar 29 2011
>
> AAS panel on History Education in East and Southeast Asia
> **************************************
> From: Yeow Tong Chia <yeowtong.chia@utoronto.ca>
>
> Dear Members,
>
> I would like to invite members who are attending AAS 2011 in Honolulu,
> and who are interested in history education and history textbook
> controversies, to attend the following session (#346) on Friday April
> 1st, 2011 at 2.45 pm in Room 305A.
>
> Session 346: The Past Contested: National, Cultural and Global
> Dimensions of History Education in Japan, Malaysia and Singapore
>
> Organizer: Yeow Tong Chia, University of Toronto, Canada
>
> Chair: Ethan Segal, Michigan State University, USA
>
> Discussants: Ethan Segal, Michigan State University, USA; David L.
> Grossman, Chaminade University, USA
>
> This panel examines the contested nature of history education and the
> ways in which governments have obliterated competing versions of the
> past by using schools as a primary vehicle to legitimize state-
> sanctioned historical memory. The first paper discusses the
> international response to Japan's war past by highlighting the role of
> House Resolution 121 as a lobbying point against Japan's continued
> reluctance to acknowledge its war crimes. The second paper examines
> the contested nature of history education in Malaysia's ethnically
> stratified context. It illustrates an instance of how dominant ethnic
> Malays have used history education to advance their communal goals,
> often at the expense of greater representation for ethnic minorities.
> The final paper discusses the use and abuse of history education in
> Singapore's nation-building project. Mapping historical changes in
> history and social studies curriculum, the paper shows that curricular
> evolution is closely tied to changes in Singapore's political and
> state developmentalist goals. Taken together, these papers demonstrate
> the contested nature of the teaching of the past, and show how states
> in the Asian context have deployed history education as a tool for
> legitimation, identity formation, and nation building.
>
> H.R.121 and the International Response to the Japanese Textbook
> Controversy
> - Elizabeth Anne Dutridge-Corp, Michigan State University, USA
>
> The Politics of History Education and Nation-building in Malaysia
> (1960~2010)
> - Lee Lan Wong, Tsinghua University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
>
> History Education for National Building and State Formation: The case
> of Singapore
> - Yeow Tong Chia, University of Toronto, Canada
>
> --
> Yeow-Tong CHIA, Ph.D designate (Toronto)
> History of Education
> Comparative, International and Development Education
> http://utoronto.academia.edu/YeowTongChia
>
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