TAILIEUCHUNG - GMAT reading Episode 2 Part 6

Tham khảo tài liệu 'gmat reading episode 2 part 6', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Generated by Foxit PDF Creator Foxit Software http For evaluation only. E suggest an alternative approach Passage 59 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 he history of the United States distort history to suit 5 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 10 European conquest of the New World denotes the superiority of European cultures. Although textbooks evaluete Native American architecture political systems and homemaking. I contend that they do it from an ethnocentric 15 European perspective without recognizing that other perspectives are possible. One argument against my contention asserts that by nature textbooks are culturally biased and that I am simply underestimating children s ability to see through these 20 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 25 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. 1. Which of the following would most logically be the topic of the paragraph immediately following the passage A Specific ways to evaluate the biases of United States history textbooks B The centrality of the teacher s role in United States history courses C Nontraditional methods of teaching United States history D The contributions of European immigrants to the development of the United States E Ways in which .

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