Japan and the United States: What Our Textbooks Tell Us About Each Other.

Kobayashi, Victor N. And Others.

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ERIC Number: EJ255550

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1981

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Japan and the United States: What Our Textbooks Tell Us About Each Other.

Kobayashi, Victor N. And Others.

Today's Education: Social Studies Edition, v70 n4 p45-57 Nov-Dec 1981

Summarizes results of a cooperative international analysis of social studies texts by the United States/Japan Study Group. The project found books from each country tended to justify their own country's actions while consistently oversimplifying conditions in the other. Teaching strategies to counteract textbook biases are included. (AM)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, International Relations, Nationalism, Secondary Education, Social Studies, Stereotypes, Teaching Methods, Textbook Bias, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Japan; United States

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