How Agricultural Science Trumps Rural Community in the Discourse of Selected U.S. History Textbooks

Autor/inn/en	Howley, Marged; Howley, Aimee; Eppley, Karen
Titel	How Agricultural Science Trumps Rural Community in the Discourse of Selected U.S. History Textbooks
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Social Education, 41 (2013) 2, S.187-218 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-3104
DOI	10.1080/00933104.2013.778715
Schlagwörter	United States History; Agriculture; Community; Rural Areas; Textbooks; Textbook Content; Change; High Schools; Content Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Criticism; Ideology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landwirtschaft; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Lehrbuchtext; Wandel; High school; Oberschule; Inhaltsanalyse; Diskursanalyse; Kritik; Ideologie
Abstract	Using narrative from 6 high school American history textbooks published between 1956 and 2009, this study investigated changes in how textbook authors presented the topics of agricultural science, farming, and community. Although some critical discourse analyses have examined textbooks' treatment of different population groups (e.g., African Americans, women) or particular historical trends (e.g., industrialization), few have explored textbooks' treatment of rural cultures and occupations. The critical analysis undertaken in this study revealed that there was a decline over time in the salience of the theme, "the promise of science and technology for improving agriculture". It also suggested that a decline in explicit rhetoric in support of industrial agriculture accompanied widespread acceptance of this approach, with its emphasis on monoculture and corporate management, trumping an earlier idyll of the small farm, with its emphasis on nurture, family, and community. Interpretation of these findings rests on the distinction between the Jeffersonian and the Hamiltonian ideals for the American nation. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10