TY  - GEN
ID  - heidok18291
KW  - Daguo jueqi
SP  - 8
AV  - public
CY  - Macau
TI  - World history education in the PRC between textbooks and television - some observations on recent developments
Y1  - 2014///
N2  - History education has always been a crucial domain in citizen formation and the scholastic curriculum all over the world. Besides learning about one's own country's history, reflections on foreign history have been an integral part of this endeavor, although usually secondary to national history. The paper briefly outlines the developments in the curricular guidelines of the PRC concerning world history education and looks into some chosen recent world history textbooks as a practical
reference. However, history education today is set in a pluri-medial context, and people are more and more influenced by history images provided by the mass media, namely television, as surveys have shown. It therefore seems imperative to contextualize school history education with media representations of history to gain a more realistic picture of historical consciousness formation in society. For world history, the example of the widely acclaimed Chinese TV documentary series Daguo jueqi ???? (The Rise of the Great Powers) (2006) is used to look into this more complex setting of history education in present-day China. Such influential media representations of history challenge also conventional history education in school to build up more critical competence to deal with these new and competing ways of history representations. As a practical consequence, this calls for more attention to the audio-visual and its specific workings besides the text (and textbook)-based conventional approach in history
education in school.
PB  - Aomen ligong xueyuan
A1  - Müller-Saini, Gotelind
EP  - 22
SN  - 978-99965-2-099-0
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18291/
ER  -