- Title
- When the English began to hate: the manufacture of German demonisation in British school history textbooks 1900-1930
- Creator
- Crawford, Keith
- Relation
- History of Education Review Vol. 38, Issue 1, p. 54-62
- Relation
- http://www.anzhes.com/journal/38_1.shtml
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- There are a significant number of studies that argue that since the rise of mass education school textbooks have become essential instructional tools for curriculum delivery and that the 'school textbook holds a unique and significant social function: to represent to each generation of students an officially sanctioned, authorised version of human know/edge and culture' (original emphasis). Constructed by real people with real interests school textbooks are products of ideological and political conflicts and compromises. As instruments of socialisation and sites of ideological discourse history textbooks are designed to introduce young people to a particular, and historically located, cultural and socio-economic order with its relations of power and domination, textbooks represent the 'focal element in the process of cultural transmission'. This article develops those ideas by exploring how, within a climate characterised by a national moral panic and an institutionalised imperialist xenophobia British school history textbooks in the early years of the 20th century came to present an intensely hostile discourse of Germans and Germany. The approach is multi-disciplinary and the evidence base for the analysis is drawn from political perspectives, popular culture, children's literature, and newspaper depictions. This provides a framework through which to link cultural depictions with how history was taught, what was to be learnt, and how this was mediated through school history textbooks.
- Subject
- community attitudes; cultural images; educational history; history textbooks; public opinion; socialisation; stereotypes; textbook bias; United Kingdom
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917562
- Identifier
- uon:8343
- Identifier
- ISSN:0819-8691
- Language
- eng
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