Teaching National Identity and Alterity: Nineteenth Century American Primary School Geography Textbooks

Autor/in	Gu¨rsel, Bahar
Titel	Teaching National Identity and Alterity: Nineteenth Century American Primary School Geography Textbooks
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 10 (2018) 1, S.106-126 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2041-6938
Schlagwörter	Nationalism; Geography Instruction; Textbooks; Content Analysis; Ethnicity; Anglo Americans; World Geography; Elementary School Students; Educational History; Racial Attitudes; Racial Bias; Social Change; Technological Advancement; Self Concept; Stereotypes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nationalismus; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Inhaltsanalyse; Ethnizität; Weltkunde; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Rassenfrage; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Sozialer Wandel; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Klischee
Abstract	The swift and profound transformations in technology and industry that the United States began to experience in the late 1800s manifested themselves in school textbooks, which presented different patterns of race, ethnicity, and otherness. They also displayed concepts like national identity, exceptionalism, and the superiority of Euro-American civilization. This article aims to demonstrate, via an analysis of two textbooks, how world geography was taught to children in primary schools in nineteenth century America. It shows that the development of American identity coincided with the emergence of the realm of the "other," that is, with the intensification of racial attitudes and prejudices, some of which were to persist well into the twentieth century. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01