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Montiel-Overall, Patricia, Ed.; Adcock, Donald C., Ed. – American Association of School Librarians (NJ3), 2009
According to the preface, "in light of the growing multicultural population in the United States, twenty-first-century library services will require culturally competent librarians." For years AASL has been addressing cultural issues in its official journal, "Knowledge Quest". This collection brings together articles that touch…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Gender Bias, Literacy, Library Services
Foster, Stuart J., Ed.; Crawford, Keith A., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order. Crucially, exploring the social construction of school textbooks and the messages they impart provides an important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Textbook Content, Social Systems