Comparative Perspectives on School Textbooks: Analyzing Shifting Discourses on Nationhood, Citizenship, Gender, and Religion

Hildebrandt-Wypych, Dobrochna; Wiseman, Alexander W.

This book examines the discourses on nation-building, civic identity, minorities, and the formation of religious identities in school textbooks worldwide. It offers up-to-date, practical, and scholarly information on qualitative and mixed-method textbook analysis, as well as the broader context of critical comparative textbook and curriculum analyses in and across selected countries. The volume offers unique and empirical research on how internal educational policies and ideological goals of dominant social, political, and economic groups affect textbook production and the curricular aims in different educational systems worldwide. Chapters address the role of school textbooks in developing nationhood, the creation of citizenship through school textbooks, the complexity of gender in normative discourses, and the intersection of religion and culture in school textbooks.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2022-04-23

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783030687212

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68719-9

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 359.0