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Download full textMarchino, Lois A. – 1980
The Nancy Drew adventure series, a classic girls' favorite for over 50 years, offers less sex role stereotyping and sexist cultural indoctrination than the majority of reading textbooks now used in the elementary school classroom. Textbooks were excluded from the Title IX regulations of the 1972 Education Amendments, and a review of studies…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Elementary Schools, Females
Fair, Martha H.; And Others – 1980
This manual was developed for use of participants in 10 workshops that were designed to help teachers to identify and overcome sex and ethnic bias. The workshops provide a framework for consideration of the often subtle ways that bias may be an inherent element in textbooks, instructional materials, and teachers' attitudes and behaviors.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Bias, Instructional Materials
