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Alia Baker Danch – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
Despite the many contributions of nonhuman animals in history, nonhuman animal representations are seldom crafted with care and accuracy in curricular texts. Because of the anthropocentric vantage point of textbook creation, the nonhuman animal is often portrayed as an object, but as our relationship with the nonhuman world continues to…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Research, Animals, Empathy
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Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva; Siri Wieberg Klausen – Multicultural Education Review, 2025
This study compared narratives of immigrant groups in history textbooks for secondary education in Norway, before and after the last curriculum reform of 2020. This reform promoted diversity and cultural awareness among other values. This study found developmental changes connected to immigrant groups, as indicated by an increased focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, History, Textbooks
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Gabowitsch, Mischa – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2023
This article is based on a bibliographical data set of over 2,600 history textbooks from the post-1945 Soviet Union and eleven out of its fifteen successor states, including books on international, national, and regional or local history. Among these, it analyzes the illustrations used in 450 books that cover the period of the Second World War.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Bibliometrics, History Instruction
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Jutta Mägdefrau; Patrick Urlbauer; Andreas Michler – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2024
One aim of secondary education is to convey informed and multilayered notions, rather than simplistic stereotypes, about other nations. In this context, textbook materials play a decisive role as teaching aids. In this article, we analyze representations of China in seventy-one secondary school textbooks from two federal states in Germany. We used…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Visual Aids
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Christophe, Barbara – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
Comparing narratives of the Soviet occupation in 1940 in current textbooks by two leading Lithuanian publishing houses, I claim that Lithuanian textbooks offer diverging accounts, which mirror to a large extent the opposing mnemonic frames supported by two rival political camps. I also show that the same textbooks tame those differences by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, World History, History Instruction
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Moskwa, Dagmara – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
This article reconstructs the historical narrative of the Second World War in Russian middle school textbooks published after the year 2000. The author shows how textbook narratives are linked with official Russian politics of history, which aim to "manage" the memory of the war and contribute toward the standardization of Russian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Middle Schools, Textbooks
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Bonnie Lewis; Ryan M. Crowley – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2024
The authors analyzed three Advanced Placement U.S. History textbooks' narratives of U.S. 20th century social democratic policies (e.g. New Deal, G.I. Bill, pro-suburbanization policies) using Lipsitz's "possessive investment in whiteness" as a theoretical framework. The authors found texts portrayed the exclusion of Black populations…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, United States History, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Spjut, Lina – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
This article explores ways in which textbook content can reflect national identity over time via a case study of Swedish textbooks. To this end, it analyzes and contextualizes descriptions of Finnish labor migrants in Sweden in seventy-four compulsory school textbooks. The Finnish labor group emigrated from Finland to Sweden mainly from the 1950s…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Migrant Workers
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Mielke, Patrick – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
This article traces discursive shifts in the ways in which imperialism and European colonialism have been dealt with in the classroom in relation to the German history textbook "Time for History" ("Zeit für Geschichte"), which was published in 2010. It explores how the textbook's representation of German colonial rule in…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, History Instruction, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
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Díaz, Edgar – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
Social studies texts often pose a challenge for readers because of their complex linguistics features, which can cause comprehension issues. Drawing upon Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study examines how authors create cohesive messages and meaning in an 11th-grade U.S. history textbook in relation to the history of diseases. Findings…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Diseases, History Instruction
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Luku, Esilda – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2020
This article examines the extent to and the ways in which the Holocaust is presented in Albanian secondary school history textbooks. It offers a quantitative analysis of the space devoted to the Holocaust in proportion to the textbooks' overall content and a qualitative content analysis based on the narrative patterns outlined in the UNESCO report…
Descriptors: Death, Jews, European History, Secondary School Students
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Abdou, Ehaab D. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2018
The Egyptian Christian (Coptic) minority's marginalization in politics and the Egyptian public sphere has been well investigated by several scholars. However, while many scholars and activists continue to call for the inclusion of the Coptic era in Egyptian history curricula, only very few studies have actually analyzed how that historical…
Descriptors: Textbooks, History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation
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Avarogullari, Ayten Kiris; Avarogullari, Muhammet – World Journal of Education, 2018
This study focuses on how issues of slavery are discussed in the social studies and history textbooks in Turkey. A total of 16 textbooks were examined. 7 of these books were published by the Ministry of National Education and others by various private publishers. A qualitative research design is adopted and the data were classified according to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, History Instruction, Textbook Content
Pombo, Jose M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation chronicled a multifaceted study utilizing the Historical, Philosophical, Societal and a Takeaway (HPST) Framework, an organizational tool used for document analysis. Utilizing a case study format, this research unpacked how a charter school teacher used HPST within her own ninth grade Advanced Placement World History class. As a…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Charter Schools
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Bentrovato, Denise; Van Nieuwenhuyse, Karel – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
Over half a century since the last wave of political decolonisation, the handling of "dark" colonial histories remains topical. Influenced by the postcolonial turn, this study aims to examine, from a novel historical and comparative perspective, evolving textbook representations of Belgian colonialism and its legacy in Belgian and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational History, Postcolonialism
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