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Thoughts on Book Readings
All of the readings included in Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically about Global Issues help us appreciate American culture and U.S. history from several diverse perspectives. The book urges us all to reach beyond comfortable representations of the United States -- who we are, what our role has been in shaping the world, and how we have exercised power through our actions and interactions with others across the globe -- and embrace more complex truths. In short, we should challenge traditional interpretations.
History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History by Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward helps expose how many American texts are biased in portrayals of the United States' role in world history. By examining the historical record of American history in English translated foreign texts, it is clear that other countries challenge the American depiction of itself in major events such as the Suez Canal, the Pueblo Incident, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Philippine-American war. There are many different ways of interpreting the same event and it always varies depending on the storyteller.
Examples include a Japanese textbook that suggests that it was a Caribbean trade rivalry that that led to the War of 1812. Canadian textbooks tend to suggest that it was Canada's nationalism that created fears of invasion in the United States which influenced everything from the American Revolution to the Civil War. The text comparisons confuse the traditional American understanding of our role in various...
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This particular program is designed for grades K-8 and is both a reading and a language arts program. This reading program has as a foundation "literacy instruction that stimulates, teaches, and extends the communication and thinking skills that will allow students to become effective readers, writers, communicators, and lifelong learners." The program also uses themes to instruct students. In addition to programs that addressed the needs of beginning students, there
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