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THE COLD WAR IN THE CLASSROOM GEBUNDEN

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the socially
disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today¿s history classroom. Applying a diverse
set of methodological strategies  the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory
cultures across the globe  paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our
present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point to ambivalence 
vagueness and contradictions in textbook narratives understood to be echoes of societal and
academic controversies. Others focus on teachers and the history classroom  showing how
unresolved political issues create tensions in history education. They render visible how
teachers struggle to handle these challenges by pretending that what they do is ¿just history¿.
The contributions to this book unveil how teachers  backgrounding the political inherent in all
memory practices  often nourish the illusion that the history in which they are engaged is all
about addressing the past with a reflexive and disciplined approach.

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