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Direct linkJimenez, Jeremy David; Lerch, Julia; Bromley, Patricia – European Journal of Education, 2017
This article reviews the state of research and data on relevant content, broadly understood as sustainable development, in social science textbooks worldwide. Specifically, it examines the extent to which these textbooks could help learners to acquire the knowledge, skills and values that are needed to meet goal 4.7 of the United Nation's…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Global Approach, Sustainable Development, Social Sciences
A Tale of Two Worlds: The Interstate System and World Society in Social Science Textbooks, 1950-2011
Bromley, Patricia; Cole, Wade – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
There is a great and longstanding divide in visions of the international arena. Some assert that states are the most relevant actors in international politics, and others emphasise the importance of non-state actors as vehicles through which shared ideas and identities are enacted. Typically, cross-national scholarship adopts one of these…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbooks, Social Sciences, History Instruction
Terra, Luke; Bromley, Patricia – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
In this study the authors analyze 548 secondary social science textbooks to examine the extent to which multiculturalism-related content appears over time and around the world. Findings suggest significant global increases in textbook depictions of minority rights and groups experiencing discrimination over time and in many regions. (Contains 2…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Textbooks, Global Approach, Social Sciences
Bromley, Patricia – Educational Research, 2011
Background: This paper considers how textbooks resolve the tension between contradictory goals of promoting a cohesive national identity while teaching respect and equality among diverse social groups in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. Purpose: The article presents preliminary results of a larger study examining the content of required civic…
Descriptors: High Schools, Nationalism, Textbooks, Citizenship Education
Meyer, John W.; Bromley, Patricia; Ramirez, Francisco O. – Sociology of Education, 2010
In reaction to the disasters of the first half the 20th century and World War II, a dramatic world movement arose emphasizing the human rights of persons in global society. The contrast--celebrated in international treaties, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and much cultural discourse--was with narrower world emphases on the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Textbooks, War, Social Sciences
Bromley, Patricia; Russell, Susan Garnett – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2010
This article examines Holocaust education in secondary school social science textbooks around the world since 1970, using data coded from 465 textbooks from 69 countries. It finds that books and countries more connected to world society and with an accompanying emphasis on human rights, diversity in society and a depiction of international, rather…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Textbooks, Social Sciences, Death
