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Gu¨rsel, Bahar – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2018
The swift and profound transformations in technology and industry that the United States began to experience in the late 1800s manifested themselves in school textbooks, which presented different patterns of race, ethnicity, and otherness. They also displayed concepts like national identity, exceptionalism, and the superiority of Euro-American…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Geography Instruction, Textbooks, Content Analysis
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James, Keith; And Others – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1995
Among 1,607 American Indian and Anglo dropouts and currently enrolled middle- and high-school students, language difficulties and problems with teachers were predictive of academic troubles and dropping out. Success of Indian students was related to stronger Anglo cultural identity and better English proficiency (in mainstream schools) but was not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, American Indians, Anglo Americans