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HOW HAVE WOMEN BEEN TREATED IN SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOKS AND CURRICULA?

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HOW HAVE WOMEN BEEN TREATED IN SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOKS AND CURRICULA?

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Textbooks are staples of teaching and learning in schools, and a student reads more than 32,000 textbook pages as he or she moves from elementary through secondary school. What images of women are presented on these pages? Several textbook studies of the 1970s revealed slight coverage of women in history and other subjects of the social studies, and the few references to women in the textbooks tended to convey one-sided images of dependency, domesticity, and passivity–negative stereotypes rather than balanced and realistic portrayals of changing roles in modern society (Wirtenberg et al. 1980, 12). A 1972 study of 172 textbooks and supplementary materials used in the Kalamazoo, Michigan school system concluded that there was pervasive sexism in the curriculum. A 1978 study of textbooks and supporting materials used by the Michigan Department of Education yielded similar findings. All materials were flawed, especially in sex bias and treatment of Amerindians, and handicapped people. Ga

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