East Asia at War: Mobilization, Women, Refugees and Mobility – Sourcebook

Description

By critically engaging with historical sources, students learn about the facts while improving their understanding of the complexity of causes and effects, how perspectives change over time, and how history is “made.” In turn, they enhance their skills to critically engage with disinformation on traditional news sources and social media. However, reading a source for evidence demands a different approach than reading a source for information. To use them well, they should be set within their historical contexts, and students should make inferences from them to help them understand what was happening when they were created. For this, throughout the sourcebook, sources are interrelated with brief explanations of when they were created, by whom and possible motivations behind them. The sourcebook is the result of an ongoing collaboration between EuroClio and the Northeast Asian Foundation. The collaboration started in 2016 to sustain a comprehensive knowledge-sharing between experts in Europe and Northeast Asia on the needs, approach, impact and sustainability of cross-border history education initiatives, such as joint history textbooks and research. Such cross-border initiatives aim to reduce tensions over history and deepen mutual understanding and awareness of issues related to common history.

Keywords

Historical sources

Source analysis

Gender history

Migration history

Refugee history

Conflict resolution