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Sass-Lehrer, Marilyn; Mead, Lyn Snyder – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1989
Hearing-impaired students need exposure to materials that present accurate and encouraging portrayals of people as unique individuals of equal worth and varied talents. Presented are a checklist for evaluating textbooks for fair representation of characters with disabilities and suggestions for compensating for gender, ethnic, and disability bias…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Negative Attitudes, Reading Material Selection
Council on Interracial Books for Children, Inc., New York, NY. – 1979
These guidelines are meant to assist parents and educators in identifying books for children that are free of sexism, racism, ageism, and classism. Methods for analyzing both storybooks and textbooks for bias are presented. Special emphasis is placed on evaluating basal readers and history texts. A number of evaluative checklists are presented…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Ethnic Bias
Download full textRobbins, Rebecca – 1979
Removal from the schools of educational material objectionable to American Indians is a matter of concern to teachers, parents, Indian communities and organizations, and educational decision makers. To appeal to a wider market, publishers often produce materials favoring the interests of the predominant society. Thus, textbooks and other…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Bias, Community Responsibility
