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Download full textKingman, Barry – 1976
Since history textbooks omit and/or emphasize certain data, students are left with a false sense of history. Although the "hard data" presented in history texts is generally regarded as reliable, the selection and organization of that data is inherently manipulative because other data has been excluded. Because authors do not begin with a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Data, Discovery Processes
