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Stutzman, Esther – 1992
This guide attempts to show educators a perspective on Columbus that is historically accurate and sensitive to American Indian history. The 500-year anniversary of the voyage of Columbus is not a time for rejoicing among the Indian population. Although exploration of the New World was inevitable, Columbus and his successors treated the Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Grade 4
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
Peer reviewedCrane, Barbara – Educational Leadership, 1975
Changes the state of California wishes incorporated in the materials used by the children of the State become incorporated in the publishers' national editions to ensure their availability whether the textbooks are supplied by the California state printers or the publishers. (RC)
Descriptors: Multicultural Textbooks, Racial Discrimination, Sex Stereotypes, Textbook Bias
Download full textCrismore, Avon – 1985
Metadiscourse, or an author's presence in a text, and its benefits for improving textbooks and children's learning and attitudes are explored in this paper. Through a historical review, the paper reveals that using the interpersonal voice and the author's commentary are legitimate rhetorical devices. Interviews with prominent contemporary…
Descriptors: Authors, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension
Ogren, Sandra L. – 1985
The purpose of this study was to examine problems of evaluating sex bias in textbooks and to analyze the presence of sex bias in high school American history textbooks. Seven editions of "Rise of the American Nation" (Harcourt, Brace & World) were analyzed to determine if the 1982 edition indicated better sex equity than earlier…
Descriptors: Females, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Secondary Education
Johnston, A. Montgomery – Tennessee Education, 1974
Descriptors: Attitudes, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Kempton, Patricia C. – Journal of Open Education, 1974
Considers the failure of existing textbooks to depict realities of life experienced by the typical black child and provides a brief annotated listing of resources and textbooks to help develop positive self concept. (SF)
Descriptors: African Culture, Black History, Black Students, Ethnic Stereotypes
Peer reviewedZimmerman, Roger – Negro Educational Review, 1975
Discusses and compares surveys made in 1965 and again in 1971 of the fourth, fifth and sixth grade textbooks of six publishers: the publishers chosen were those most frequently mentioned when a random sample of Minnesota school districts was asked to name the basic social studies textbook(s) being used at the time. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Publications, Racial Discrimination, Sex Discrimination
Peer reviewedKoch, Ingeborg – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
Discusses the effects of perpetuating national stereotypes in FL instruction and offers some up-to-date approaches to teaching cultural background not based on cliches. (KM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Images, Ethnic Stereotypes
Molina, Carmen Eneida, Ed.; And Others – 1980
This guide in English and Spanish examines the roles assigned to women in social studies textbooks and the omission of women from history books. It analyzes the topics, textbooks, pictures, and narrations in use, and offers alternatives to these biased materials. A pre-test and post-test are included to measure the user's awareness of textbook…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Females, History Textbooks, Learning Modules
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Library Development and Services. – 1981
This document presents guidelines, published by the Maryland State Department of Education, for the evaluation and selection of instructional materials. The first section of the document focuses on the review and selection of textbooks and instructional materials. The second and third sections deal specifically with the selection of materials…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Media Selection, Self Concept
Council on Interracial Books for Children, Inc., New York, NY. – 1979
These guidelines are meant to assist parents and educators in identifying books for children that are free of sexism, racism, ageism, and classism. Methods for analyzing both storybooks and textbooks for bias are presented. Special emphasis is placed on evaluating basal readers and history texts. A number of evaluative checklists are presented…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Ethnic Bias
Sadker, Myra; Sadker, David – 1979
A research study in which 24 leading preservice teacher education textbooks are examined for degree of sex equity reveals a predominant attitude of imbalance and omission towards the role and contribution of females in American society and education. The textbooks are content analyzed for space allocation and treatment of sexism, sex differences…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Nontraditional Occupations, Preservice Teacher Education, Sex Discrimination
Anderson, Charlotte C. – 1976
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the extent to which sexism exists in elementary and secondary textbooks. The findings of two recent studies of elementary and secondary textbooks are summarized and directed to four questions: Do textbooks describe the real world as females and males experience it in our society? Should textbooks describe…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Feminism, Males
Thum, Gladys E. – 1975
A dissertation study done by the author examining the bias against women in American histories of education is discussed in this paper. The educational histories selected for the study were categorized by recognized high professional quality and high academic status. Each book analyzed concentrated on different subject areas of educational…
Descriptors: Bias, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History, Educational Research
