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Pia Mikander; Henri Satokangas – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2024
Democracy is increasingly being challenged, by disengagement and by anti-pluralist movements (Levitsky and Ziblatt in How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Viking, New York, 2018; Wikforss in "Därför demokrati. Om kunskapen och folkstyret" [Because of this, democracy. On knowledge and people's rule] Fri Tanke, 2021;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Democratic Values, Cultural Pluralism
Puddington, Arch – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1985
Holds that schools and textbooks utilized in communist block countries serve to indoctrinate students as to the virtues of the system under which they live and bias them against other systems. Cites several examples of anti-United States propaganda in Soviet texts. (GC)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education
Hodenfield, G. K. – American Education, 1979
History and geography textbooks used in secondary grades in the Soviet Union and in the United States are being examined by scholars in both countries for factual errors and ideological distortions which influence how one nation perceives the other. A joint report, with suggestions for improvements, is scheduled for 1980. (MF)
Descriptors: Communism, Cultural Exchange, Democracy, Foreign Countries