Textbooks

educational institutions, and the students themselves, all prevent the students from being original, unique, and succeeding in class. The second text, “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, by James W. Loewen, highlights how American history textbooks have led to the misinformation…

of the Japanese soldiers. Although heinous, the Japanese history textbooks has been found to deliberately downplay their wartime crimes, or outright omit the existence of the crime. Its Asian neighbors remembers it as an indisputable…

Revolutionary pedagogy: “Highest Directives” in textbook The textbooks in the era of Cultural Revolution provide a unique perspective to the establishment of Mao’s cult. Although generally regarded a presentation of academic background and kept at a distant from political turmoil, textbooks didn’t escape from the politicization during the Cultural Revolution; rather it bore witness to the Maoists’ attempt of upraising Mao Thought to an omnipresent, universal and unchallengeable place. Similar…

managed its own landed estates which provided most of the wealth in Egypt (Textbook, page #19). • Agriculture was another factor that created most of Ancient Egypt’s wealth, mainly because the largest number of people worked in the land (Textbook, page…

gives students the ability to make connections between past events and current issues influenced by those events. Most importantly, it gives students the ability to look deeper into society and see the flaws present there. I believe that history textbooks have so far failed American students because they do not present an accurate, multicultural history, but an embellished, white, Eurocentric history that history teachers continue to perpetuate to students, hampering students’ ability to think…

possible improvement. American textbooks frequently lionize important people, possibly because showing any flaws or weaknesses of character they might have could stand to tarnish the public’s opinion of the person’s reputation. In this chapter, Loewen writes about the tendencies of textbooks to only focus on the positive things one did, as opposed to also making note of some of the more unsavory actions and ideals, in addition to their…

Quality of education in primary school in Cameroon: a perspective from dropout and repeat rate Daigo Ito Introduction In the Cameroon, the enrolment rate of primary school has achieved more than 90% however, the achieve rate is still less than 80% and there are many children out of the school. There may be problems of quality of education. First, I researched enrolment, survival, dropout and repeat ratio annualize and analyse the problem behind them. Second, I report the teacher circumstance…

College textbooks cost a fortune, and it stockpiles onto the already trifling cost. Keep in mind that you won’t use the textbook forever, you’ll be done with it once the course is over. The cost of buying textbooks can add up to about $1,000 a year or more. That’s not all, though. The textbooks keep increasing. “College textbook prices rise about 6 percent, on average, every year,” according to The New York Times. When textbooks rise, so does student loan debt. What…

was. Then, an explosion occurred right along with the police shooting into the crowd. The textbook mentioned the Haymarket Affair in 1886. This affair consisted of workers that demanded eight-hour work days. The textbook also mentioned the rally held in Haymarket square to protest the killings along with…

for colleges to have their required textbooks readily available to students at no cost. “According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2015–2016 school year was $32,405 at private colleges, $9,410 for state residents at public colleges, and $23,893 for out-of-state residents attending public universities.” (College Data).…