Overview
- Williams and Bokhorst-Heng provide a unique study of 13 cases around the world where school textbooks are used, alternately, to include or exclude social and cultural groups from the national portrait
- The book shows how school textbooks portray indigenous peoples, ordinary good citizens, LGBT people, and other “others” in 17 regions
- The book provides a comparative examination of shifts in the protrayal of “self” and “other” during periods of social change in 17 countries
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Re)Constructing Memory: Textbooks, Identity, Nation, and State
Editors: James H. Williams, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-509-8
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-509-8Published: 08 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 380
Topics: Education, general