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Hawkins, Jeffrey M. – Multicultural Education, 2002
Stresses the importance of U.S. history textbooks containing information that is accurate, realistic, and comprehensive, noting that while there are increased portrayals of Native Americans in today's history textbooks, portraying them in a stereotypical manner that suggests a single type of Indian culture is inappropriate and may affect students'…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Stereotypes

Gottlieb, Stephen E. – History Teacher, 1989
Maintains that in order for students to participate effectively in a democracy they must be exposed to different viewpoints. Shows that high school history textbooks avoid controversy, leave out vital information, and are biased. Argues textbooks should be subject to a fairness test that includes constitutional scrutiny. (RW)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Democracy, History Instruction

Schwartz, David – Social Education, 1989
Urges the frank examination of painful episodes in Western and other open societies' recent history to achieve glasnost and historical honesty. Cites the Klaus Barbie trial and the accompanying embarrassment for both France and the United States. Points out distortion in Japanese textbooks on the pre- and World War II years and in U.S. textbooks…
Descriptors: Asian History, Elementary Secondary Education, European History, Foreign Countries

Graham, Tony; And Others – International Journal of Social Education, 1990
Analyzes six high school U. S. government textbooks. Discusses method of evaluation. Compares textbooks based on the following criteria: content, physical characteristics, understandability, and fairness. Concludes that all of the textbooks studied competently meet the aforementioned research criteria. (RW)
Descriptors: High Schools, Research Methodology, Social Studies, Textbook Bias

Smith, Timothy L. – Religion and Public Education, 1988
Identifies developments in U.S. history in which religion played a decisive role. Investigates the way these religious forces were dealt with in 10 high school U.S. history textbooks used in Alabama. Concludes that they ignored or distorted the place of religion to the extent that students are denied knowledge of recent historical research. (LS)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Religion

Marquez, Stephanie Amedeo – Teaching Sociology, 1994
Reports on the treatment of Hispanic women in six college introductory sociology textbooks. Finds that the depiction, although well intentioned, is distorted. Employing a feminist interpretive analysis, asserts the need for revision of sociology texts to avoid four problematic presentation strategies. (CFR)
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Females, Feminism, Higher Education
Rubin, Barry – American Educator, 1994
Examines ways the Middle East is presented in American high school textbooks, focusing on seven texts. The books are good introductions to culture, geography, and early history, but they do a poor job on contemporary issues, providing a poor foundation for the study of current events in the Middle East. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Current Events, Democracy, Geography

Moldenhauer, Gebhard – European Education, 1991
Describes textbooks of both East and West Germany from 1949-56, 1957-62, 1963-69, and 1970 on. Discusses a shift in West German texts from intense antagonism during the Cold War to a more critical comparison by the 1980s. Compares East German text development that increased in hostility over time, viewing West Germany as a negative alternative to…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries

Larkins, A. Guy; Hawkins, Michael L. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1990
Criticizes the prevalence of trivial and noninformative content in two primary grade social studies expanding environment textbook series. Extends earlier study, adding three additional analytical categories to its framework. To teach citizenship effectively, recommends (1) eliminating redundant, superfluous, and text-inappropriate content; (2)…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Content Analysis, Literature Reviews, Primary Education

Epstein, Terrie L. – Social Education, 1994
Asserts that student attitudes toward history textbooks are important because the perceptions may affect how much or how well they learn. Describes how 17 11th-grade U.S. history students evaluated their textbook. Found that 71% of the students perceived the book to be a presentation of knowledge. (CFR)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Government (Administrative Body), History Instruction, Secondary Education

Filene, Peter G. – Journal of American History, 1993
Reports on the treatment of the Progressive Era of U.S. history in eight college-level introductory history textbooks. Finds that text authors are divided into two groups: the "unitarians," who portray the progressives as a homogeneous, purposeful phenomenon; and the "pluralists," who focus on Progressivism's varieties,…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economic Change, Economic Factors, Higher Education
Loewen, James W. – 1995
A survey of 12 leading high school U.S. History textbooks has resulted in the opinion put forth in this book that the textbooks currently used in high schools are an embarrassing amalgam of bland optimism, blind patriotism, and misinformation. In addition to critiquing existing textbooks, the book also suggests how U.S. History should be taught.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, High Schools, Higher Education, History Instruction
Krull, Edgar – 1992
Fifty years of Soviet occupation in Estonia has damaged social and economic life. One issue for further development of Estonian society is the need to reform teacher education programs. This paper outlines some of the main problems concerning the content of theoretical preparation of future teachers in educational subjects at Tartu University…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Estonian
Hurst, G. Cameron, III – 1988
The altering of the presentation of Japan's imperialist adventures in Japanese high school history textbooks reflects a continuing dispute between Japan and her Asian neighbors, as well as between a politically conservative bureaucracy in the Ministry of Education and a historical profession heavily influenced by "progressives" who write…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Foreign Countries, Historiography
Stutzman, Esther – 1993
This curriculum guide dispels the stereotypes of American Indians that humiliate and degrade real Indian culture and add fuel to the fire of racism and prejudice. It begins with a timeline of American Indian history from 15,000 B.C. to the present, and compares it to a historical timeline of Europe-Asia. The stereotype of the savage Indian is…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indians, Educational Resources