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Peer reviewedMehlinger, Howard D; Rabinowitch, Alexander – Social Education, 1981
Introduces a cooperative project undertaken by the USSR Ministry of Education and by various educational institutions in the United States to assess what youth in each country learn about the other country from geography and history textbooks. The objective was to minimize misinformation. (DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction
Download full textParker, Franklin – 1986
This review of a 1981 interim report on the United States' and the Soviet Union's distortion of events in history and geography textbooks is intended to encourage educators in both countries to depict the other side more honestly, less aggressively, and more appreciative of each other's virtues and flaws. Organized into two major sections,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Geography Instruction
Association of American Publishers, New York, NY. – 1981
This interim report, intended to help textbook authors and publishers, describes the results of a project in which American schools critiqued Soviet textbooks and Soviet scholars critiqued American textbooks. Secondary level history and geography texts were the focus of the study. There are five chapters to the report: Background to the Study;…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction
