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Who Owns History? (Teaching and Learning about Cultural Diversity)

Notes that history is always based on someone's vision of truth, expressed through a process of distillation, selection, inclusion, exclusion, reorganization, and prioritizing. Argues that the shorthand, watered-down, or warped history of mainstream textbooks regarding cultural diversity should be supplemented with original documents, fiction, and the voices of real people telling their own stories. (SR)

• Author/Creator: Miller, Howard M.
• Date Published: Sep
• Journal/Secondary Title: Reading Teacher
• Number: 1
• Volume: 52
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Educators
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Childrens Literature
• Subject: Cultural Differences
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Elementary Education
• Subject: Fiction
• Subject: History Instruction
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Personal Narratives
• Subject: Primary Sources
• Subject: Textbooks

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