Demythologizing the Textbook President: Teaching About the President After Watergate.

Barger, Harold M.

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Publication Date: 1976

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Demythologizing the Textbook President: Teaching About the President After Watergate

Barger, Harold M.

Theory and Research in Social Education, 4, 1, 51-66, Aug 76

The author examines elementary, secondary, and college level social studies textbooks, to see how they treat the presidency and presents a brief review of findings of student images of the presidency immediately before Watergate and one year later. He discusses four basic conceptual ways for teachers and curricula developers to reconsider the president. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Political Power, Presidents, Student Attitudes, Textbook Evaluation, United States Government (Course)

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