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Sook Wei Wong – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2023
The Japanese occupation of Malaysia during the Second World War has occupied a significant space in national history textbooks in Malaysia. The period has been associated with nationalist movements and independence from colonial rule. However, narratives of the Japanese occupation in school history textbooks have changed in terms of the importance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, War, Armed Forces
Wineburg, Sam – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
History textbooks are less likely to be complete renderings of the truth than a series of stories textbook authors (and the many stakeholders who influence them) consider beneficial. Sam Wineburg describes how the process of writing history textbooks often leads to sanitized and inaccurate versions of history. As an example, he describes how the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Misconceptions, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Onitiu, Atalia – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
The fourth grade represents the first year of study of the discipline History for students in pre-university education. Before being a matter of civics, the European identity is a historically grounded construct; therefore, we naturally wondered whether the issue that we have not only an ethnic or national identity, but also a European one is,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Nationalism
King, LaGarrett; Woodson, Ashley; Dozono, Tadashi – Educational Foundations, 2020
In this article, the authors focus on ways to structure conversations about racism in world history classrooms through a case study of race and racism in Haiti at the turn of the 19th century. Drawing on the events of the Haitian Revolution, the authors describe how identifying patterns of racial hierarchy can provide a framework for talking about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, History Instruction, Race
Blaauw, Jan – Educational Practice and Theory, 2017
History textbooks in contemporary democracies have often been exposed to censorship and other forms of interference. This article presents the idea of a classification of these forms as a novel way to contemplate the ambivalent relationship between democratic authority and historical instruction. The model primarily distinguishes official forms of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Censorship
Lindquist, David – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
The ethnic violence that occurred in the former Yugoslavia during the mid-1990s has become one of the defining events of recent history. As such, today's students should develop an awareness of the history of that situation and its implications for contemporary society. Because textbooks provide the structure of most high school history courses,…
Descriptors: History, Textbooks, Death, Foreign Countries
Chick, Kay A. – Social Education, 2009
The Battle of Bull Run is routinely cited as the first land battle of the Civil War. This battle between Union and Confederate forces took place near Manassas, Virginia, on July 21, 1861. But was this battle really the initial skirmish between the North and the South? Historians today concede that the first land battle actually took place on June…
Descriptors: United States History, Textbooks, Elementary Secondary Education, War
Waring, Scott Monroe – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate. Beginning as early as 1892, the question of what knowledge is of the most worth and what should be the central function of the history curriculum became a focus of many interested in education. It was felt that the teachers needed to move away…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Development, Change Strategies
Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. By the time they complete the core, students must be able to read and comprehend independently and proficiently the kinds of complex texts commonly found…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Glossaries

Diefendorf, Jeffry M. – History Teacher, 1982
Examines and discusses the history manuals and textbooks used to teach history to children between the ages of 11 and 16 in the polytechnical schools of East Germany. Some general observations concerning East German educational practices are also included. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, History Instruction

Grant, S. G. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1991
The California History-Social Science Framework seems less prescriptive than some other state curriculum guides and more open to individual teacher decision making. However, the framework's main audience appears to be textbook publishing companies. Reforms will be implemented not by knowledgeable teachers, but by sanctioned textbooks aligned with…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Policy Formation, Professional Autonomy
Clark, Penney – McGill Journal of Education, 2005
This study examined 20th Century Canadian history textbooks authorized in British Columbia, for their portrayals of women. The texts do not adequately reflect feminist scholarship nor societal changes. The nation building narrative of the textbooks precludes the inclusion of women in important ways. In the interwar years, the women who appear in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Textbooks, Gender Issues
Sewall, Gilbert T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1988
Because American history and social studies textbooks are "official chronicles of the nation's past and influence the next generation's social understanding, content controversies abound. This article discusses the editorial ahistoricism, arid language, and disembodied figures characterizing most texts, reviews past successful models, and suggests…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Publishing Industry, Social Studies

Power, Donald – Canadian Social Studies, 1992
Explores instruction concerning the Irish role in Canadian history. Suggests that the Irish influence has been downplayed and presented to students in a biased manner. Discusses particular incidents in which Irish people have been portrayed negatively in textbooks and instruction. Argues that Irish Canadians achievements should be celebrated in…
Descriptors: Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Groups

Musselwhite, Laura – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 2000
Reviews three works that each examine a specific area of metahistory: (1) "World Historians and their Goals" by Paul Costello; (2) "The Structure of Big History" by Fred Spier; and (3) "The Myth of Continents" by Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen. (CMK)
Descriptors: Geography, Higher Education, History Instruction, Instructional Materials