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Willinsky, John – Science & Education, 2020
Following on earlier examinations of biology high school textbooks' handling of race, this study examines eleven biology textbooks, intended for US high school use and published between 2014 and 2019. It offers a close reading of these textbooks' treatment of four topics that have been associated with race: genetic disorders, human origins, skin…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbook Bias, Racial Bias, Science Education
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Montgomery, Ken – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2005
This paper examines how the idea of "race" is represented in high school Canadian history textbooks. It looks at textbooks authorized by the Province of Ontario between 1940 and 1960 and those authorized after 2000. It is argued in this paper that even though historical racisms have increasingly made their way into Canadian history…
Descriptors: History, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Bias