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| American Education | 5 |
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| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
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Barendsen, Robert D. – American Education, 1976
Textbook writers in countries around the world interpret our forefathers' actions in ways that, while often curious, broaden our own perspective. (Editor)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Historiography, History Textbooks, Textbook Bias
Spitzer, Richard C. – American Education, 1975
Today as they have during the past 300 years, textbooks play the basic role in telling us who we are as a people and as a nation. (Editor)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Objectives, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes
American Education, 1977
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Nondiscriminatory Education
Eaton, Cynthia; Jacobs, Carol – American Education, 1973
Article discusses the organization, Women on Words and Images, which set out to influence publishers to find a reading study series that did not inhibit the development of children by depicting males and females as being capable of performing only in roles narrowed according to their sex. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Child Development, Females, Publishing Industry
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
