Consider Content: An Analysis of Two "Canadian" Primary Language Arts Reading Series.

Lorimer, Rowland; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ187810

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Publication Date: 1977

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Consider Content: An Analysis of Two "Canadian" Primary Language Arts Reading Series

Lorimer, Rowland; And Others

Interchange, 8, 4, 64-77, 77-78

An examination of characters, narrative content, and context of two Canadian primary level reading series reveals a fictional world populated almost exclusively by white, nuclear families all living the same kind of life, with values of upwardly mobile, achievement-oriented individualists. (MJB)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Arts, Reading Instruction, Sex Stereotypes, Social Values, Stereotypes, Textbook Bias, Textbook Evaluation

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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