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Direct linkLillejord, Jebadiah Serril – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent contemporary high school world history textbooks portray Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro within the context of being "sacred," "profane," or someplace in between. To evaluate for existence of content bias this study employed qualitative…
Descriptors: World History, History Instruction, Textbooks, Qualitative Research
Peer reviewedClark, Roger; Ayton, Kieran; Frechette, Nicole; Keller, Pamela J. – Social Education, 2005
This article is the world history counterpart to a previous paper on American history textbooks, "How Much of the Sky? Women in American History High School Textbooks from the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s," Social Education, January/February 2004. The authors of this article examined six books from each decade, the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s. The analysis…
Descriptors: Females, Textbook Content, Textbook Bias, Gender Bias
Crawford, Keith A., Ed.; Foster, Stuart J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, War, Memory
Peer reviewedPaquette, William A. – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 2001
Reviews whether textbook publishers have put the "world" in world history textbooks by comparing the editions of four different world history textbooks over 25 years. Evaluates 10 current editions of world history textbooks. Offers questions to consider and discusses additional content concerns. Includes charts and references of the reviewed…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Research, Global Approach
