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The Trouble With Textbooks
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Author : Gary A. Tobin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-07-31
The Trouble With Textbooks written by Gary A. Tobin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with Education categories.
School textbooks in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab and Muslim worlds are filled with anti-Western and anti-Israel propaganda. Most readers will be shocked to discover that history and geography textbooks widely used in America's elementary and secondary classrooms contain some of the very same inaccuracies about Jews, Judaism, and Israel. Did you know that "there is no record of any important Jewish contribution to the sciences?" (World Civilizations, Thomson Wadsworth). Or that "Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus?" (The World, Scott Foresman/Pearson). Supplemental materials and other classroom influences are even worse. The Trouble with Textbooks exposes the poor scholarship and untruths in textbooks about Jews and Israel. The problems uncovered in this ground-breaking analysis are instructive, and illustrate the need for reform in the way textbooks are developed, written, marketed, and distributed. Substitute another area-how we teach American history, Western civilization, or comparative religion-and we have another, equally intriguing case study. The Trouble with Textbooks shows what can go terribly wrong in discussing religion, geography, culture, or history-and in this case-all of them. The Trouble with Textbooks tells a cautionary tale for all readers, whatever their background, of how textbooks that Americans depend on to infuse young people with the values for good citizenship and to help acculturate students into the multicultural salad that is American life, instead disparage some groups and teach historical distortions. With millions of young people using these textbooks each year, the denigration of some should be a concern for all.
Civil Rights Culture Wars
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Author : Charles W. Eagles
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-02-02
Civil Rights Culture Wars written by Charles W. Eagles and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-02 with History categories.
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state’s past. In 1974, when Random House’s Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and corruption, the state textbook commission rejected the book, and its action prompted Loewen and Sallis to join others in a federal lawsuit (Loewen v. Turnipseed) challenging the book ban. Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our understanding both of civil rights activism in the movement’s last days and of an early controversy in the culture wars that persist today.
Textbooks In American Society
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Author : Philip G. Altbach
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1991-09-27
Textbooks In American Society written by Philip G. Altbach and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-27 with Education categories.
In recent years, textbooks have been widely criticized for low standards, lack of imaginativeness, and insensitivity to racial and gender issues. Increasingly, they are cited as another "weak link" in American public education. This book goes beyond the headlines to examine how textbooks are produced, how they are selected, and what pressures are placed on textbook authors and publishers. The book focuses on the relationship of the textbook to the educational system and includes important issues such as the politics of textbook policy, the determinants of textbook content, the role of textbooks in educational reform, and the process of selection at the state level. The authors offer current research on textbook policy including perspectives from those directly involved with textbooksfrom several thoughtful analyses by textbook editors and publishers to the views of California's Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Why Some Children Have Trouble Reading Content Area Textbooks
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Author : Bonnie B. Armbruster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Why Some Children Have Trouble Reading Content Area Textbooks written by Bonnie B. Armbruster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Children categories.
Textbooks On Israel Palestine
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Author : Seyed Hadi Borhani
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-27
Textbooks On Israel Palestine written by Seyed Hadi Borhani and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-27 with Political Science categories.
How is the Israel/Palestine question narrated in Western academia? What ideas dominate the key textbooks on the subject and what is presented as 'truth'? This book answers these critical questions. It is widely known that Western support of Israel played a vital role in the realization of Zionist objectives in Palestine. But academic support of Israel in the West has been a neglected issue, with Western academic knowledge being regarded as impartial and objective. This book reveals that this understanding of Western academic knowledge is wrong when it comes to the Israel/Palestine question. Rather, knowledge has been biased, misleading, and dogmatic and Western college students are subscribing to 'factual histories' based on theories at best, if not fiction. The book is the first empirical investigation able to document this partial reporting of history. Seyed Hadi Borhani examines the most popular college-level textbooks used to teach the history of the Israel/Palestine in Western universities, combining 'textbook analysis' (to determine how the dominant academic texts report the question) and a 'context analysis' (to identify who 'manufactures' the dominant knowledge). The book provides a historical map of how the Israel-Palestine conflict is understood in the West. The book can be used as a critique for students and professors to use alongside textbooks and is a vital and much-needed intervention into the state of affairs in Western academia.
Textbooks In School And Society
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Author : Arthur Woodward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Textbooks In School And Society written by Arthur Woodward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Education categories.
Textbooks have been standard schoolroom fixtures for as long as most living citizens of this country can remember. Many turn-of-the-century students were introduced to reading through the moralistic McGuffey Readers and struggled through the rather drab and colorless pages of volumes on history, geography and civics. In contrast, today's textbooks contain not only narrative content accompanied by colorful photographs and graphics, but also section and chapter exercises that are extended through the use of worksheets and other materials. Moreover, the textbook and its related student materials are packaged together with teacher's editions and tests in grade-level sets that amount to content area programs rather than mere texts.
American History Textbooks
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Author : Gilbert T. Sewall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
American History Textbooks written by Gilbert T. Sewall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Textbooks categories.
The Textbook As Discourse
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Author : Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-01-24
The Textbook As Discourse written by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-24 with Education categories.
This book is about the social, political and cultural content of elementary and secondary textbooks in American education. It focuses on the nature of the discourses—the content and context—that represent what is included in textbooks.
Politics Of Textbook Selection
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Author : Sherry Keith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Politics Of Textbook Selection written by Sherry Keith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Education categories.
American Education
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
American Education written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Education categories.