The Politics of the Textbook

ISBN-13: 9780415902236 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 296 str.

Michael Apple;Linda Christian-Smith;Michael Apple

Opis

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"The essays are . . . well written and insightful, and will be of considerable interest to scholars, educators, and others concerned with the role of the school in social, political, and cultural reproduction." -- T. Reagan Choice

Spis treści

1: The Politics of the Textbook; 2: The Culture and Commerce of the Texbook; 3: Texts and High Tech: Computers, Gender, and Book Publishing; 4: With a Little Help from Some Friends: Publishers, Protesters, and Texas Textbook Decisions; 5: Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in Current Textbooks; 6: Reclaiming the Voice of Resistance: The Fiction of Mildred Taylor; 7: Critical Lessons from Our Past: Curricula of Socialist Sunday Schools in the United States; 8: The Secular Word: Catholic Reconstructions of Dick and Jane; 9: Readers, Texts, and Contexts: Adolescent Romance Fiction in Schools; 10: Textual Authority, Culture, and the Politics of Literacy; 11: Textbooks: The International Dimension; 12: Building Democracy: Content and Ideology in Grenadian Educational Texts, 1979-1983

O autorze

Michael Apple, Linda Christian-Smith