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The New Politics of the Textbook

Problematizing the Portrayal of Marginalized Groups in Textbooks

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Heather Hickman

    1. Lewis University, IL, USA

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  2. Brad J. Porfilio

    1. Lewis University, IL, USA

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action (CKCS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Problematizing the Portrayal of Marginalized Groups in Textbooks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Qualitative Understanding Ofpreservice Teachers’ Critical Examination of Textbook Curriculum Units as Political Text

      • Sandra Foster
      Pages 3-16

    3. Finding my Serpent Tongue

      • Theresa Montano, Rosalinda Quintanar-Sarellana
      Pages 17-30

  3. Math and Science Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Women on the Margins

      • Rachel Sutz Pienta, Ann Marie Smith
      Pages 33-47

    3. Representation of Diversity in Science Textbooks

      • Robert Ceglie, Vida Olivares
      Pages 49-68

  4. English Language Arts Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Handling Heteronormativity in High School Literature Texts

      • Heather Hickman
      Pages 71-85

    3. The Open Court Reality

      • Elizabeth Jaeger
      Pages 87-106

    4. E Pluribus Unum

      • Mary Christianakis, Richard Mora
      Pages 107-125

  5. Social Science & Humanities Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Uncovering and Destabilizing Heteronormative Narratives in World History Textbooks

      • Scott S. Wylie
      Pages 129-148

    3. The Exclusion and Inclusion of Women in American Government Textbooks

      • Christiane Olivo
      Pages 149-172

    4. Context and Community

      • Christine Rogers Stanton
      Pages 173-194

    5. Textbook Orientalism

      • Lisa Zagumny, Amanda B. Richey
      Pages 195-213

    6. Swept Under the Rug

      • Caroline Knight
      Pages 215-233

    7. Don’t Ask about and Don’t Tell the Lies my Teacher Told me

      • Jeffrey M. Hawkins
      Pages 235-257

    8. Invisible Indians

      • Kate Cummings
      Pages 259-271

    9. Gender Representation in AP ART History Textbooks

      • Denise Michelle Cornish, Sherrie Carinci, Jana Noel
      Pages 273-292
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About this book

In an age of unprecedented corporate and political control over life inside of educational institutions, this book provides a needed intervention to investigate how the economic and political elite use traditional artifacts in K-16 schools to perpetuate their interests at the expense of minoritized social groups. The contributors provide a comprehensive examination of how textbooks, the most dominant cultural force in which corporations and political leaders impact the schooling curricula, shape students’ thoughts and behavior, perpetuate power in dominant groups, and trivialize social groups who are oppressed on the structural axes of race, class, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Several contributors also generate critical insight in how power shapes the production of textbooks and evaluate whether textbooks still perpetuate dominant Western narratives that normalize and privilege patriotism, militarism, consumerism, White supremacy, heterosexism, rugged individualism, technology, and a positivistic conception of the world. Finally, the book highlights several textbooks that challenge readers to rethink their stereotypical views of the Other, to reflect upon the constitutive forces causing oppression in schools and in the wider society, and to reflect upon how to challenge corporate and political dominance over knowledge production.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lewis University, IL, USA

    Heather Hickman, Brad J. Porfilio

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The New Politics of the Textbook

  • Book Subtitle: Problematizing the Portrayal of Marginalized Groups in Textbooks

  • Editors: Heather Hickman, Brad J. Porfilio

  • Series Title: Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-912-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-912-1Published: 13 October 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2213-722X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-7238

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 316

  • Topics: Education, general

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