implementation is theoretically necessary if textbook design is to follow the notion of historical thinking. 13 Then, I compare the results of my investigation to the structure of currently approved German history textbooks and demonstrate how their design
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the target country. In a way, it increases the complexity of the challenges faced by curriculum and textbook design agencies, as the notion of “culture” is increasingly emphasized. To accompany this curriculum, several new national textbooks were
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, history books noted that Friedrich II sent colonists into the newly acquired land and that “the region was won for Germanity ( Deutschtum ) and for the culture.” 35 A geography textbook designed for middle schools and published in 1911 claimed that “[t
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. Many sources were also changed during the textbook design or editing process in order to better fit the master narrative. I call this change the normative metamorphosis of sources into the national autobiography. While the sources on the GDR economy
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an overall nationalistic and coherent narrative. The 2000s, however, saw textbooks designed to deliver chunks of information to satisfy state academic standards and testing. This includes the generous use of subheadings, graphics and images. In many
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Nineteenth Century American Primary School Geography Textbooks
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citizens.” 3 Particularly significant in this regard are textbooks designed during the second half of the 1800s (the age of imperialism), when the issue of establishing a global realm acquired significance for Western countries seeking to pursue the
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Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Francoist History Textbooks of the 1960s
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). 90 S. M. Bachillerato 1970 , by contrast, does not mention peace in its presentation of the postwar period at all. In other words, it is precisely in the textbook designed for thirteen to fourteen-year-olds that this development is missing. Instead
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textbook Introductory Economics by George Stanlake (third edition, 1976), which was used in pre-university training for pupils generally aged from sixteen to nineteen, and the German textbook designed for the upper classes of German grammar schools