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Mehlinger, Howard D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
Based on recent critiques of Soviet and American textbooks, this article discusses educators' differing assumptions concerning what students should learn, who should decide what they learn, how students learn, how geography and history curriculum should be organized, and how much choice teachers should have. Includes eight references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction
