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Fitzgerald, Jason C. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
For over a century, history teachers throughout the United States have selected textbooks as the primary instructional material for their classrooms, while textbook authors and publishers have continuously produced a unified nation-state narrative that presents United States history as a series of objective historical facts for student…
Descriptors: United States History, Textbooks, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Popplewell, Susan G. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the presence, allocation, and quality of multicultural content found within 17 textbooks assigned to preservice teachers for early childhood education specialization courses at a large regional university in Oklahoma. A mixed-methods content analysis was conducted to assess the depth, breadth and instructional relevance of 58…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Early Childhood Education, Specialization
Fan, Hui-Mei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study is based on the theoretical assumptions that frequency of characters and their structural components, as well as the frequency types of structural components, are important to enable learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) to discover the underlying structure of Chinese characters. In the CFL context, since reliable…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Phonetics, Semantics, Vocabulary