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Schools expect textbooks to be a valuable source of information for students
Schools expect textbooks to be a valuable source of information for students
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2025-02-26
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Schools expect textbooks to be a valuable source of information for students. My research suggests, however, that textbooks that address the place of Native Americans within the history of the United States distort history to suit a particular cultural value system. In some textbooks, for example, settlers are pictured as more humane, complex, skillful, and wise than Native American. In essence, textbooks stereotype and deprecate the numerous Native American cultures while reinforcing the attitude that the European conquest of the New World denotes the superiority of European cultures. Although textbooks evaluate Native American architecture, political systems, and home-making, I contend that they do it from an ethnocentric, European perspective without recognizing that other perspectives are possible.
One argument against my contention asserts that, by nature, text- books are culturally biased and that I am simply underestimating children’s ability to see through these biases. Some researchers even claim that by the time students are in high school, they know they cannot take textbooks literally. Yet substantial evidence exists to the contrary. Two researchers, for example, have conducted studies that suggest that children’s attitudes about particular culture are strongly influenced by the textbooks used in schools. Given this, an ongoing, careful review of how school textbooks depict Native American is certainly warranted. [br] The author’s attitude toward the content of the history textbooks discussed in the passage is best described as one of
选项
A、indifference.
B、hesitance.
C、neutrality.
D、amusement.
E、disapproval.
答案
E
解析
作者对文中所谈论的教科书观点持何态度?从文中可知,作者是持否定态度。∴E正确。不同意。
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