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A Postcolonial Discourse Analysis of Finnish School Textbooks: Learning about the World from a Tourist Perspective
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Mikander, Pia; Zilliacus, Harriet – Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
In this article, we ask how Finnish basic education school textbooks in social science portray tourism and countries with a big tourism sector. We have analyzed the textbook quotes from a postcolonial perspective, using discourse theory analysis. The idea is to challenge what is considered objective information about tourist locations in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Textbook Evaluation, Social Sciences