(Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks And The Imagination Of The Nation
by James H. Williams /
2014 / English / PDF
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This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change. Drawing on a range of analytic strategies, the authors examine history and civics textbooks, and the teaching of such texts, along with other prominent curricular materials-children's readers, a required text penned by the head of state, a holocaust curriculum, etc.