School History Textbooks and Historical Memories in Japan: A Study of Reception

Fukuoka, Kazuya

doi:10.1007/s10767-011-9113-0

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“…Currently, in well -developed countries, we can observe that public education is becoming less influential. Nevertheless, various case studies show that it can still serve as an effective instrument in the government's remembrance policy: it is used to establish emotional relationships between citizens and the interpretation of the past (Dror 2001); to promote a selection of events which are significant for national identity (Yablonka 2009); to associate past experiences with preferred behaviours (Meseth -Proske 2010); to shape political preferences (Bukh 2008;Fukuoka 2011) and even to mobilise young citizens and involve them as an additional force in ongoing political conflicts (Wang 2008). 4 The organisation of time results in an official calendar of political holidays and it informs citizens about the past events which are to be commemorated or celebrated.…”

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Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Wawrzyński¹,

Schattkowsky²

2015

Politics in Central Europe

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The paper presents the results of an experimental study of Polish students’ attitudes towards their government’s remembrance policy (or, in other words, the intentional narration and interpretation of the past by the government). It includes four parts: a justification of why remembrance is a significant political asset in post-Communist Poland; a classification of remembrance policy instruments; a presentation of general results of the study; and a discussion of participants’ attitudes to particular policy instruments. In our assessment of the general results, we discuss three types of collected data: the results of the initial measurement of attitudes; the results of measurement after the manipulation of emotions (neutral vs. positive vs. negative) and commitment (no commitment vs. low commitment); and the results in terms of attitude change. In the section on attitudes to particular instruments, we compare participants’ support for different commemorative actions with their support for the governments’ dominant role in the popularising of remembrance narratives. The study’s results lead us to formulate three conclusions about the relationships between attitudes to the policy and Polish political culture.

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Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Wawrzyński¹,

Schattkowsky²

2015

Politics in Central Europe

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“…Th erefore, remembrance narratives may mediate proliferation of civic attitudes, values and behaviours, causing some limitation to further democratic development (Komalasari, Saripudin, 2017;Hailat, 2017). Th ey produce boundaries for public debates, defi ning which actions are either historically appropriate or against the nation's tradition or interests (Fukuoka, 2011). Finally, the public education system can serve as a medium for propaganda and manipulation of public opinion -promoted interpretations of the past may legitimise social, economic or political order and refocus citizens from the current state of the nation to unresolved past injustices (Wang, 2008).…”

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Promotion of National Heroes as Civic Role-Models during Democratisation

Marszałek–Kawa¹,

Wawrzyński²

2018

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Th e paper considers the relationship between remembrance narratives on national heroes and proliferation of political attitudes, values and behaviours during democratisation. It discusses the impact of interpretations of the past on the development of civil society in the context of public education as an instrument of identity politics. Comparing the experiences of Chile, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, South Africa and Spain, the authors present the role of national heroes in the legitimisation of behaviours and attitudes, new elites and national unity. Th e discussed results prove that the establishment of a pro-democratic system of civic education increases chances for successful consolidation of democracy in post-authoritarian countries.

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“…Indeed, Schuman et al note that revisionists' beliefs reached only the people already open to such re-evaluations. Finally, in the recent research on reception of history textbooks in Japan, Fukuoka (2011) has shown that students evaluated -and sometimes dismissed -textbooks' narratives in light of other socio-political circumstances and alternative sources of memory.…”

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Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

Juroš¹

2016

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The present study found that the textbook and newspaper presentations, primarily shaped by the 1990s nation-building elites, mainly portrayed Yugoslavia in negative political, economic and ethnic terms. However, findings from 72 in-depth interviews with the two young Croatian generations suggested that the influence of the dominant negative re-evaluations was limited, particularly among the vocationally educated individuals who were least exposed to the institutionalized presentations of the Yugoslav past. In contrast, the young Croats, independently of their differences, generally dominantly evaluated Yugoslavia in positive social terms, which was a perspective obtained from their parents and older people recounting their good lives in Yugoslavia. This perspective was appropriated not only because its sources were emotionally available and credible, but also because the social lens on Yugoslavia helped the young Croats make sense of their lives in the social insecurities of the contemporary Croatian society.ix Therefore, the present study showed how different beliefs on the Yugoslav past, available from different sources, were appropriated and used by the young Croats. I also proposedInteractional Model of Collective Memories Formation, which elaborated how the influences on the beliefs of the past were formed at the macro, micro and the level of social interaction. Finally, this study also illuminated how active actors reinterpreted the presentations of the past, thus demonstrating how individuals can use culture in diverse and adept ways. They wore their hair long, discovered LSD and pot They sang about peace, with Tito they were non-aligned On national basis, they were not divided It was easy to talk philosophy in a student mess, To be a penniless artist and a musician in-between In a place where things were working out all-right, where the state functioned It was easy to be a student in the 1970s My folks -they easily found their first job Nobody hit the unemployment office with a degree in their hands The living was good in that party system Nobody talked about Goli otok, you just changed the subject The students with their hair long got a degree and got a job, got their paycheck regularly You even could get an apartment from the United Work It was easy then to have big plans To make your own nest, to be relaxed, no tensions there To have your spot in the company reserved, in the selfmanagement committee as well You stayed until you retired -all your life at the same desk Everything didn't seem as a bluff, a cheap trick in those days Nobody went hungry They were happy in their little apartment Secure job and a retirement fund It was an easy decision to have us Nothing is the same anymore, there is no secure path There is no direct flight to the stars, to the better tomorrow Black-and- (born 1989-91), was born after the break-up, but it spent its formative years in democratizing post-Yugoslav period.Both these generations were hardly able to form mature meaningful evaluations of the past. 4Rather, for th...

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School History Textbooks and Historical Memories in Japan: A Study of Reception

Cited by 21 publications

References 31 publications

Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Promotion of National Heroes as Civic Role-Models during Democratisation

Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

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