Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

of Yugoslavia and th Sovit Union;
rak-ups
th Frano-Grman history rvision projt
and
simply “History”
(“Histoir-Gshiht”,
in oth Frnh and Grman). Ths
writtn
st a luprint for rvision projts
xampls
ton down or liminat historial hostility in
to
ountry's rsptiv txtooks, to instad
ah
a narrativ that supports paful
promot
Ths fforts go ak half a ntury.
oxistn.
instan, in 1950 a Grman nwspapr
For
to “dtoxifiation squads” onsisting
rfrrd
British and Grman historians and tahrs
of
aimd to rmov th “poisonous sds
who
y nationalisti hat ampaigns in shool
sown
(Stör quotd in Korostlina, Lässig
txtooks”
Frnh and Danish history tahrs also
2013).
joind th projt, to th point whr
vntually
sam nwspapr followd up th projt a
th
latr with an artil spulating whthr
yar
was going to a “Europan” history
thr
were meeting … with the intention to
They
and discuss each other’s national history
review
in order to eliminate ‘untrue accounts and
textbooks
descriptions of the other nation’ and ‘to
deprecating
an immortalization of nationalistic tensions’
prevent
‘glorications of war’.
or
th following xtrat from th 1937
Considr
of Nations Declaration Regarding the
Lagu
th projt almost xdd
Indd,
to rah th furthr stag of a
rvisionism
transnational txtook. It is on thing
shard
nationstats to hallng ah othr’s
for
history and ooprat in rvising
narrativsof
it is anothr thing ntirly to transnd
thm;
ut aross national divisions and hav a
or
txtook.
ommon
is on suh projt, a shard
Histoir-Gshiht
for oth Frnh and Grman studnts.
history
was proposd y th Frnh-GrmanYouth
It
in 2003 and takn upy th Grman
Parliamnt
for Forign Affairs and th Frnh
Dpartmnt
of Eduation, and finally launhd
Ministry
2008 in th town of Pronn, th sit of th
in
attls of th First World War.
loodist
projts of history txtook rvision
Earlir
hampiond y “intrnationally-
wr
tahrs. For a priod, in th 1920s
mindd”
1930s, vn th Lagu of Nations, th
and
ofth Unitd Nations, pikd up
prdssor
issu. Ths fforts fousd on omparativ
th
toidntify and rvis ssntial
analyss
and misundrstandings of
misrprsntations
of History (Revision of School Text-Books),
Teaching
th prinipls for ahiving intrnational
listing
a. … assigning as large a place as possible to the history of other nations;
b. … giving prominence, in the teaching of world history, to facts calculated to bring about a realisation of
It is desirable that every Government should endeavor to ascertain by what means, … especially in connection with
2.
choice of school-books, … allegations and interpretations as might arouse unjust prejudices against other nations.
the
9II. Perspectives
txtook. Profssor Gorg Stör writs:
othr nations.
(Stöber quoted in Korostelina, Lässig 2013)
For discussion
Perspectives and legitimacy
undrstanding.
1. “It is desirable that the attention of the competent authorities in every country, and of authors of school textbooks,
should be drawn to …
the interdependence of nations.
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