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Duke, Benjamin C. – Comp Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Education, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Textbook Bias
Peer reviewedSchwartz, David – Social Education, 1989
Urges the frank examination of painful episodes in Western and other open societies' recent history to achieve glasnost and historical honesty. Cites the Klaus Barbie trial and the accompanying embarrassment for both France and the United States. Points out distortion in Japanese textbooks on the pre- and World War II years and in U.S. textbooks…
Descriptors: Asian History, Elementary Secondary Education, European History, Foreign Countries
Hurst, G. Cameron, III – 1988
The altering of the presentation of Japan's imperialist adventures in Japanese high school history textbooks reflects a continuing dispute between Japan and her Asian neighbors, as well as between a politically conservative bureaucracy in the Ministry of Education and a historical profession heavily influenced by "progressives" who write…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Foreign Countries, Historiography
