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Gagnon, Paul – 1987
Content weakness in textbooks is a major obstacle to effective social studies teaching. Chapters 1-3 of this book provide the Education for Democracy Project's Statement of Principles, a consideration of history's role as the core of social studies education, and the role of textbooks in teaching world history. Chapters 4-14 examine five selected…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Democracy, Democratic Values, High Schools
Gagnon, Paul – 1989
The first purpose of a high school course in U.S. history must be to help students understand the essence of democracy and those events, institutions, and forces that have either promoted or obstructed it. This review examines five textbooks and analyzes how useful they are in aiding that process, and how they might be made more helpful. The five…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Secondary Education
Friedlander, Henry – 1973
The booklet reviews the largely inadequate treatment of Nazi persecution of the Jews in history textbooks and presents an annotated list of other books which treat the Holocaust in depth. Studies of texts commonly used in high school, college freshman survey of Western civilization courses, and advanced university history courses show that…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Problems, European History, Higher Education
Crawford, Keith A., Ed.; Foster, Stuart J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, War, Memory
Jenkinson, Edward B. – 1979
Selected incidents of censorship in the schools are examined in this book, and suggestions are made for preserving students' and teachers' rights. The aim is to offer a calm, rational, informed discussion of censorship issues and an awareness of the organization and goals of pressure groups so that censorship efforts can be countered effectively.…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech
Herz, Martin F. – 1978
This booklet is a comparative analysis of how six high school history textbooks present events and issues related to the Cold War. The texts are "History of a Free People" (Macmillan, 1973), "Rise of the American Nation" (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977), "The American Experience" (Addison-Wesley, 1975), "A New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Policy, History, History Instruction
Marciano, John – 1997
This book is about civic literacy, which is described as "the ability to think critically and objectively about the nation's fundamental premises and practices." The volume examines influential education reports and theorists who have defined the civic literacy debate. The book challenges the dominant perspective of history as presented…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Civics, Content Analysis
Loewen, James W. – 1995
A survey of 12 leading high school U.S. History textbooks has resulted in the opinion put forth in this book that the textbooks currently used in high schools are an embarrassing amalgam of bland optimism, blind patriotism, and misinformation. In addition to critiquing existing textbooks, the book also suggests how U.S. History should be taught.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, High Schools, Higher Education, History Instruction
Braham, Randolph L., Ed. – 1987
This book presents an overview of the treatment of the Holocaust in the textbooks used in the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the United States. Selection of these three countries was based on historical, political, and state administration criteria. All three countries are democratic but vary in terms of history, heritage, and…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Bias, Content Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Lerner, Robert; And Others – 1995
This book examines the difficulty in the United States of educating students about civic ethos. While most educators agree about the importance of civic education, many disagree over how to go about that education. This study concentrates on the role textbooks play in the debate over civic education. It examines education's role in reflecting and…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, High Schools
Patton, William E., Ed. – 1980
Seven articles present exercises and techniques to counteract weaknesses and deficiencies in social studies textbooks. Authors of the articles are William E. Patton, Donald O. Schneider, Mary Jo McGee Brown, Thomas N. Turner, Martin W. Sandler, and Jean Dresden Grambs. The authors are involved in various aspects of education, including curriculum…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Kingman, Barry – 1976
Since history textbooks omit and/or emphasize certain data, students are left with a false sense of history. Although the "hard data" presented in history texts is generally regarded as reliable, the selection and organization of that data is inherently manipulative because other data has been excluded. Because authors do not begin with a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Data, Discovery Processes
Altbach, Philip G.; Kelly, Gail P. – 1988
This volume of essays focuses on textbooks in developing nations of the world. Issues of concern are textbook supply in the schools, national policies and their relation to textbook supply and content, the role of national and international agencies in textbook publication and control, and the influence of textbooks on classroom practice. The…
Descriptors: African Studies, Asian Studies, Comparative Education, Content Analysis
Parker, Franklin – 1975
Divided into three main sections, this monograph about the Kanawha County textbook controversy deals with lessons drawn from that conflict. In answering the question of what happened, the author begins with events that predated any outward signs of dissent, such as the phasing out of the citizen advisory committee on textbook selection, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Civil Disobedience
Madsen, Harold S.; Bowen, J. Donald – 1978
The need to adapt or modify the use of given textbooks and other language teaching materials to fit the requirements of particular learning situations, and even particular students, is widely recognized. This volume presents a systematic approach to adaptation useful for methods courses as well as for the experienced teacher or curriculum planner.…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Instructional Materials
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