Sources Used in the Preparatıon of the Social Studies Textbooks to Study in Elementary School.
Introduction
The large number of published textbook content analyses suggests these studies are one of the cornerstones of social studies research. In addition to the many published examples of such studies, there are also numerous examples of social studies textbook analyses conducted by researchers outside the field of social studies education, primarily those concerning history. Two of the most cited of these are journalist Frances Fitzgerald’s (1979) America Revised and sociologist James Loewen’s (1995) Lies my Teacher Told Me. While there have been many research studies examining Kindergarten-12 textbooks, there has been little research critically analyzing textbook content analyses and offering suggestions about how the findings of each analysis can be used in the typical K-12 social studies classroom or a college level social studies methods class.