History teachers launch campaign against textbook revisions
1,500-member National History Teachers Association to issue declaration stating the gov’t is undermining neutrality of education
» The National History Teachers Association has launched a campaign on its Web site to get teachers to sign its “history educators’ declaration” against the Education Ministry’s efforts to revise the authorized high school history text.
Following history scholars, history teachers nationwide launched a campaign to sign a “history educators’ declaration,” which says the “government’s move to revise the (history textbook) ‘A Modern and Contemporary History of Korea’ has fundamentally shaken the textbook authorization system and undermines the neutrality of education as guaranteed by the Constitution.”
On October 19, the National History Teachers Association said, “History educators have begun to take action because they can not endure the government’s move to revise the history textbook in a direction that would comprehensively deny the political neutrality of education, which society has worked hard to gain.”
Since October 16, the NHTA has encouraged its members to sign the declaration on its Web site (http://okht.njoyschool.net) with a series of e-mails and mobile-phone text messages and has raised funds to advertise the declaration, which over 300 history teachers have signed in just three days. (200 words)
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