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Representing Childhood and Atrocity
Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure with a comprehensible moral and a happy ending is to do a disservice to the victims. Yet to confront children with the fact of widescale violence without resolution is to confront them with realities that may be emotionally disturbing and even damaging. Despite these challenges, however, there exists a considerable body of work for and about children that addresses atrocity. To examine the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity, this collection brings together original essays by an international group of scholars working in the fields of child studies, children's literature, comics studies, education, English literature, and Holocaust, genocide, and memory studies. It covers a broad geographical range and includes works by established authors and emerging voices.
Textbooks and War
This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes. It has long been established that history textbooks play a key role in shaping the next generation’s understanding of both past events and the concept of ‘friend’ and ‘foe’. Considering both current and historical textbooks, often through a bi-national comparative approach, the editors and contributors investigate various important aspects of the relationships between textbooks and war, including the role wars play in the creation of national identities (whether the country is on the winning or losing side), the effacement of international wars to highlight a country’s exceptionalism, or the obscuring of intra-national conflict through the ways in which a civil war is portrayed. This pioneering book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of textbooks, educational media and the relationships between curricula and war.
Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America
This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America. Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with social tributary practices and projects in the Latin world. As the cyclical crises of capitalism and their resulting inequalities have created proposals of reform and brought them into action, certain shared ideological influences and policies have emerged across these societies. Faced with the interpretative schemes used for the Anglo-Saxon sphere, which have been the usual reference in international research, this volume’s geographical and cultural matrix of analysis helps fill a longstanding gap in this field. The book will be of interest to scholars, educators, and students specialising in the history and political science of the social and solidarity economy sectors, as well as professionals involved in cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and associations.
Conflicto y convivencia en el discurso pedagógico oficial durante el tardofranquismo y la transición democrática española (1965-1982)
En el seno del Departamento de Historia de la Educación y Educación Comparada de la UNED se lleva a cabo desde 1992 una amplia investigación sobre los manuales escolares de los siglos XIX y XX —Proyecto MANES—, proyecto de carácter interdisciplinar e interuniversitario en el que colaboran diversas universidades e instituciones españolas, europeas y latinoamericanas. En la actualidad este grupo de investigación está integrado en el Centro de Investigación MANES. Fruto del trabajo de todos estos años son los diversos títulos que han visto la luz en esta colección. La obra Conflicto y convivencia en el discurso pedagógico oficial durante el tardofranquismo y la transición democ...
The Penguin Encyclopedia
An authoritative reference that every family and office needs, "The Penguin Encyclopedia" contains more than 28,000 entries on the facts, events, issues, people, beliefs, and achievements that make up the sum of human knowledge and experience. Timely entries include SARS, Ozzy Osbourne, the war in Iraq, and weapons of mass destruction. 0-14-051543-7$35.00 / Penguin Group
Mujer, educación e inclusión laboral
Este libro está destinado a destapar algunos mecanismos que dificultan que las mujeres puedan conseguir la igualdad real que reivindican como cuestión de justicia. Impedimentos costosos de detectar, porque, con frecuencia, van más allá de las leyes, decretos y circulares que emanan de distintas administraciones. Trabas que se introducen en el lugar más difícil de penetrar, la propia conciencia de los hombres y mujeres, sometida durante años a la recepción de mensajes que invitan a la consideración de espacios, actitudes, gustos, expectativas... desiguales para uno y otro sexo, fruto de una socialización diferenciada. Discursos, verbales o icónicos, que los invitan a crear identida...
