eprintid: 18291
rev_number: 30
eprint_status: archive
userid: 466
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datestamp: 2015-02-19 11:39:36
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type: bookPart
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creators_name: Müller-Saini, Gotelind
title: World history education in the PRC between textbooks and television - some observations on recent developments
subjects: ddc-070
subjects: ddc-370
divisions: i-72140
keywords: Daguo jueqi
cterms_swd: Weltgeschichte
cterms_swd: China
cterms_swd: Fernsehen
cterms_swd: Lehrbuch
cterms_swd: 
abstract: 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 大国崛起 (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.
abstract_translated_lang: und
date: 2014
publisher: Aomen ligong xueyuan
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00018291
ppn_swb: 1654933732
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-182913
language: eng
bibsort: MULLERSAINWORLDHISTO2014
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Macau
pagerange: 8-22
isbn: 978-99965-2-099-0
book_title: Tian ren gu jin: Huaren shehui lishi jiaoyu de shiming yu tiaozhan [Nature and man, past and present: the mission and challenges of socio-historical education among Chinese]
editors_name: Xiangyu, Li
citation:   Müller-Saini, Gotelind  (2014) World history education in the PRC between textbooks and television - some observations on recent developments.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18291/1/Mueller-Saini-1.pdf