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| Title: | Curriculum as destiny [electronic resource] : forging national identity in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh |
| Authors: | Rosser, Y. C. (Yvette Claire)
Davis, O. L., Jr. |
| Keywords: | Education, Curriculum and Instruction.
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.
Education, Social Sciences. |
| Issue Date: | 27-Jan-2006 |
| Publisher: | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Abstract: | This dissertation investigates the political, social, and religious influences on curriculum policy and social studies textbooks. It highlight the importance of historiography in the creation and transmission of national ideologies. This study focuses on three nations of the Indian Subcontinent, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, which share thousands of years of history, but who after 1947 have entertained distinct, often opposing visions of the past. In this context, historical interpretations, often characterized by omission, elision, and embellishment, may become standardized narratives used as justification for ethnic violence and military brinkmanship. The civic imperative to create patriotic citizens finds a malleable, teleological tool in the social studies. This study seeks to understand the sources of contentiousness which characterize the relationships between these often hostile nations where textbooks may be used as a site for negatively othering their neighbors. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/821 |
| Appears in Collections: | Theses and Dissertations from The University of Texas at Austin
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