Additionally, propaganda in textbooks, “perfect marriages and families, standardized testing, diversity disadvantages, media and comic books, extracurricular activities, promoting American lifestyle internationally, cultural work force, American education, and the 'Black Lives Matter Movement'. These concepts are not only pivotal to Spring's book, but mentioned in many other educational readings and findings as well.
The Red Target is Your Home: Images of Gender and the Family is an article that discusses many imperative topics similar to those found in Spring's writing. Spring stresses that propaganda found in school textbooks are misleading in ways that contradict a student's learning. For example, Harold Rugg’s social studies textbook …show more content…
The author of the article writes, “When an American worker gets married, and has a child, the owner immediately throws her out into the street” (The Red Target 139). Belmonte also describes a couple who got married, “Happy couples like this one demonstrated that U.S. propagandists claims that marriage, love and family thrived in democratic capitalist societies- and withered under communism”. She goes on to reference a poem that incorporates the reason behind the marriage in the picture that she is describing. “Everyone knows the truth about us! The husband is not the wife’s type so she informs on him, and the Idyll continues… I and my wife. Without keeping track, my wife reports me to the U.B [secret police] I and my wife: For me she’ll give up life itself (my own)” (The Red Target 143). This is a great example of how marriage, in this context, is all for “show”. This antagonistic message connects to the image that Spring describes, because just like the happy married couple Belmonte institutes, Spring describes a photo where there is a baby in the car with the couple who seems happy and content with his living standards, as any baby should. In reference to Belmonte’s article,“ The basis of American family life is a happy marriage” (The Red Target 144), this quote can be found misleading in that everyone who gets married ends up having an idealistic life together, complete with children, which clearly is not always true. Propaganda is an important topic for educators to analyze, because herein lies questions such as are all marriages successful? Is “The American Way of Life” simply a lie? Is propaganda in school textbooks implying the wrong messages to students? Students come from quite diverse backgrounds, having different living situations, and can be found dealing with many struggles that these textbooks do not hold in account. These questions
The Red Target is Your Home: Images of Gender and the Family is an article that discusses many imperative topics similar to those found in Spring's writing. Spring stresses that propaganda found in school textbooks are misleading in ways that contradict a student's learning. For example, Harold Rugg’s social studies textbook …show more content…
The author of the article writes, “When an American worker gets married, and has a child, the owner immediately throws her out into the street” (The Red Target 139). Belmonte also describes a couple who got married, “Happy couples like this one demonstrated that U.S. propagandists claims that marriage, love and family thrived in democratic capitalist societies- and withered under communism”. She goes on to reference a poem that incorporates the reason behind the marriage in the picture that she is describing. “Everyone knows the truth about us! The husband is not the wife’s type so she informs on him, and the Idyll continues… I and my wife. Without keeping track, my wife reports me to the U.B [secret police] I and my wife: For me she’ll give up life itself (my own)” (The Red Target 143). This is a great example of how marriage, in this context, is all for “show”. This antagonistic message connects to the image that Spring describes, because just like the happy married couple Belmonte institutes, Spring describes a photo where there is a baby in the car with the couple who seems happy and content with his living standards, as any baby should. In reference to Belmonte’s article,“ The basis of American family life is a happy marriage” (The Red Target 144), this quote can be found misleading in that everyone who gets married ends up having an idealistic life together, complete with children, which clearly is not always true. Propaganda is an important topic for educators to analyze, because herein lies questions such as are all marriages successful? Is “The American Way of Life” simply a lie? Is propaganda in school textbooks implying the wrong messages to students? Students come from quite diverse backgrounds, having different living situations, and can be found dealing with many struggles that these textbooks do not hold in account. These questions