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Kobayashi, Victor N. And Others. – Today's Education: Social Studies Edition, 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