The New Politics of the Textbook [electronic resource] : Problematizing the Portrayal of Marginalized Groups in Textbooks / edited by Heather Hickman, Brad J. Porfilio.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9789460919121
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/15077
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2012.
Yayın Bilgisi
Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2012.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XXXII, 316 p. online resource.
Dizi
Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action, 2213-7238 ; 1
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Education.
Education.
Diğer Yazarlar
Hickman, Heather.
Porfilio, Brad J.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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