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Saario, Terry N.; And Others – Harvard Educational Review, 1973
Authors investigated sex role steroetyping in three major areas: elementary school basal readers, educational achievement tests, and differential curricular requirements for males and females. (Editor)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Early Reading, Educational Environment, Educational Testing

Frasher, Ramona; Walker, Annabelle – Reading Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Family Characteristics, Family Structure, Individual Characteristics

Allen, Dwight W. – Change, 1971
Without the restraint of the textbook the teacher can become editor and decision maker, using journal articles, books, laboratory exercises and multi-media packages, to go well beyond the level of any available text. (Editor/IR)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Change, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction

Poulin, A., Jr. – College English, 1970
Descriptors: Anthologies, English Education, Poetry, Student Interests

Goodman, Grant K. – History Teacher, 1983
Fourteen Japanese and 28 American social studies textbooks, grades 7-12, were exchanged and reviewed by project participants. The purpose of the research was to seek improvements in the treatment each country gives the other in their respective textbooks. Selective findings of the project are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Civics, Comparative Education, Geography Instruction, History Instruction

Payne, Charles – Integrated Education, 1981
Reports on an examination of 14 American history texts for their content on the Southern Civil Rights Movement prior to the mid-1960s. Cites elitism, factual inaccuracy, and superficiality as common failings in many of these works. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Activism, Black History, Black Leadership, Civil Rights

Ornstein, Allan C.; Levine, Daniel U. – Educational Forum, 1982
Discusses various factors which affect sexual identity in boys and girls: orientation of curriculum and classroom activities; presence of competitive sports; and sex-role stereotypes in textbooks. Also discusses how societal changes, such as employment and educational attainment of women and decreased family size, are affecting former sex roles.…
Descriptors: Athletics, Birth Rate, Class Activities, Curriculum

Mehlinger, Howard D; Rabinowitch, Alexander – Social Education, 1981
Introduces a cooperative project undertaken by the USSR Ministry of Education and by various educational institutions in the United States to assess what youth in each country learn about the other country from geography and history textbooks. The objective was to minimize misinformation. (DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction
Dlabay, Les R. – Curriculum Review, 1980
The main appeal of corporation-produced consumer education materials is their "free or inexpensive" aspect. But the very low price of these items may have a high cost in the form of their biased perspectives. Teachers must exercise continued care in selecting and using consumer education materials. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Business, Consumer Education, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Storey, John – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1979
Sex-role stereotyping in Canadian textbooks is discussed and curriculum changes as a solution to the problem are suggested. (JMF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Wright, Vicki – Interchange, 1976
The problem of deficient and inaccurate teaching materials is identified and documented--a total approach to the problem would see the removal of all elementary school textbooks with tacit or implicit sexism, racism, ethnic bias and stereotyping in their stories' plots, language, and illustrations. (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Material Selection, Reading Materials, Sex Bias
Prince, Doris – Thrust for Education Leadership, 1976
Instructional materials are a powerful mechanism for providing students with a vision of what is important in the world around them. Examines the ways that women have been stereotyped in instructional materials and suggests evaluation criteria for preventing use of stereotyped textbooks. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Guidelines, Illustrations, Instructional Materials
Bachmann, Siegfried – Education and Culture, 1976
Recalls the development of the International Textbook Institute whose main aim was to overcome prejudice and the outmoded values of the national state as contained in textbooks. Discusses the contributions of the Council of Europe and UNESCO in revising textbooks and suggests methods of textbook research. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational History, Educational Objectives, Educational Responsibility
Murray, Carolyn B.; Clark, Reginald, M. – American School Board Journal, 1990
Conversations with 15 Black students attending predominantly White schools, about their teachers, other students, and their textbooks, reveal 8 patterns of racism that are common in schools at all grade levels. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Children, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination

Harrington, Joseph; Karns, Edward – New England Journal of History, 1991
Surveys U.S. history texts to determine the coverage given to eastern European immigrants. Reports that Poland is most extensively covered and that the amount of coverage of other eastern European peoples increases with Polish coverage. Suggests a correlation between the frequency an ethnic group is cited and the size of its population in the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnocentrism, History Textbooks, Immigrants