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Oppewal, Donald – 1985
This section, from a larger report describing a project designed to systematically investigate how religious and traditional values are represented in today's public school curricula, presents a review of the literature focusing on studies that have analyzed the treatment of religion and values in elementary and secondary textbooks. This survey is…
Descriptors: Bias, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1984
This volume describes a study of 10 frequently used eighth grade U. S. history textbooks which were examined to determine the extent to which they reflected pluralism in the United States, promoted the concept of global interdependence, and were educationally sound. The ten texts examined were: "American History for Today" (Ginn), "America: Its…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Check Lists, Cultural Pluralism, Disabilities
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1984
Ten frequently used eighth grade U.S. history textbooks were examined to determine the extent to which they reflected the pluralistic nature of the United States, promoted the concept of global interdependence, and were educationally sound. This volume includes checklists completed by 16 individual reviewers. For each completed checklist, specific…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Check Lists, Cultural Pluralism, Disabilities
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1984
Designed for curriculum directors, teachers, and others as they conduct inservice education activities which focus on helping those who have primary responsibility for selecting and evaluating instructional materials, this volume presents selected sections from Volume I of the "1982-83 Michigan Social Studies Textbook Study." In this study, ten…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Check Lists, Cultural Pluralism, Disabilities
National Right to Work Committee, Fairfax, VA. – 1977
The purpose of the paper is to evaluate classroom materials which are used to teach secondary students in history and government courses about the right to work issue. Classroom and other educational materials designated and evaluated by the National Right to Work Committee as presenting the right to work issue unfairly, inaccurately, or both, are…
Descriptors: Civics, Curriculum Evaluation, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
National Right to Work Committee, Fairfax, VA. – 1978
This document evaluates classroom materials which are used to teach secondary students in history and government courses about the right to work issue. The book is presented in six chapters. Chapter I explains that the scope of the project was to review over 180 classroom and other educational materials to evaluate their treatment of the right to…
Descriptors: Civics, Curriculum Evaluation, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Sterling, Dorothy – English Journal, 1968
Despite current emphasis on racial problems, few books present honestly the Negro experience in the United States. Adolescents' and children's books portraying Negroes in realistic situations have increased over the past two decades, but they comprise only 1% of the total output of books for young people. Textbooks that include Negroes or Negro…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Culture
Barendsen, Robert D., Comp.; And Others – 1976
Selections from the recent history texts of 13 foreign countries are contained in this document as an effort to gather the curricular perceptions of other countries about key events or periods in American history related to the U.S. Revolutionary War. The compilation provides American secondary teachers with contemporary source material not…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Colonialism, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. General Assistance Center for Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1975
This booklet, containing monographs on aspects of multiethnic curriculum in the schools, is intended to aid teachers to keep in touch with some of the strategies and criteria in planning and executing multiethnic programs. An article on new curricula for multiethnic schools notes that most of the urban and suburban schools are racially and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Isser, Natalie – 1976
This paper documents American discrimination against Chinese and Japanese groups from the 1850s through the 1940s. Social prejudice against these groups began in the late 19th century when the demand for Chinese labor in California lessened but the immigrants remained and were seen as a threat to American laborers. Japanese immigrants who were…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Curriculum
Garcia, Jesus – Education and Society, 1988
Minority group students perform less well than White students in elementary mathematics and science education. Strategies for increasing learning for minority students include the following: (1) greater use of textbook illustrations; (2) career strand applications; (3) community field trips; (4) textbook supplement through multicultural resources;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Black Students, Curriculum Development
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Commeyras, Michelle; Alvermann, Donna E. – Social Studies, 1994
Asserts that there is an important difference between history as socially constructed knowledge and as an objective, fixed account. Reports on a content analysis of three high school world history texts to determine how the meaning from them may be influenced in the content and power relations implicit in the textbook language. (CFR)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism
Good, James D.; Devore, Mary Ann – 1981
Compiled for use by Missouri vocational educators in the classroom or workplace, this instructional unit is the fourth of four designed to aid students and adults in assessing instructional materials and recognizing and/or correcting biased statements or illustrations. Its objective is for the participant to be able to develop and implement…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Behavioral Objectives, Instructional Materials, Language Usage
Devore, Mary Ann; Good, James D. – 1981
Compiled for use by Missouri vocational educators in the classroom or workplace, this instructional unit is the third of four designed to aid students and adults in assessing instructional materials and recognizing and/or correcting biased statements or illustrations. Its objective is for the participant to be able to examine materials for sex…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Behavioral Objectives, Instructional Materials, Language Usage
Jackson, Miles M. – 1976
Portrayal of racial minorities in textbooks is discussed and the practice of textbook publishers in their treatment of the roles of minorities during the 1960s to the present is traced. America transmits the dominant ideals and values of its culture to students through textbooks. Until the 1960s, racial minorities were generally ignored by writers…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
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