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Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska; Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The aim of the study was to analyze the narratives of the Solidarity movement in upper-secondary level history textbooks, published between 1991 and 2018. Quantitative methods were used to measure different categories of historical figures in terms of their frequency and textual space, as well as any changes in representation over time. To explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, History
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Pradyumna Jairam – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2019
This article analyzes how the Bharatiya Janata Party crafts a narrative of history in line with its ideology of Hindutva by decontextualizing and omitting information. Using school history textbooks prescribed by its state government in Rajasthan from 2013 to 2018, it uncovers how historical events and personalities are reinterpreted to craft a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Self Concept, History
Moore, John Robert – Soc Educ, 1969
Includes a comment on the article by William B. Fink.
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Social Studies
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Montgomery, Ken – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2005
This paper examines how the idea of "race" is represented in high school Canadian history textbooks. It looks at textbooks authorized by the Province of Ontario between 1940 and 1960 and those authorized after 2000. It is argued in this paper that even though historical racisms have increasingly made their way into Canadian history…
Descriptors: History, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Bias