O lga D ror . Making Two Vietnams

Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975 is a retelling of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the education of Vietnamese youth in the North as well as the South. As Olga Dror argues, the apparently peripheral issue of pedagogy, defined as an institutional practice though which a state reproduces its power, is in fact crucial to understanding the conflict, which spanned several generations. To continue the war, “both societies had to reproduce people who would be willing to stand for their goals” (4). The need for a history of the war from such a perspective becomes clear when we consider the conflict within the longer history of modern Vietnam. In the work of Gail Kelly, the colonial era appears as a prolonged crisis in Vietnamese pedagogy: The resistance to colonial rule by the scholar elite was defeated, and the Confucian examination system, which was crucial to the...

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