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[mayo at umn.edu]

Greetings Everyone!

A local teacher posed a very good question about textbooks earlier today. 
The full text of his query is found below. If anyone has information that 
could be helpful, please let me know or respond directly to him.

Many thanks, in advance,


J.B.

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J.B. Mayo, Jr., Ph.D.
Social Studies Education
University of Minnesota
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
152-A Peik Hall - 159 Pillsbury Drive, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: (612) 625-2534
Fax:   (612) 624-8277
Email: mayo at umn.edu



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:29:34 -0600
From: "Mark Nelson" <Mark_Nelson at rdale.k12.mn.us>
To: <mayo at umn.edu>
Subject: textbooks

Hello, I hate to bother you but I would like to ask you a question about
resources. I have a student of yours working as my student teacher this
quarter (Chris Clark) and because of your position I thought you might
be able to shed some light on my query; I am concerned about the lack of
material out there representing different perspectives in America
History and was wondering if you have heard anything.   Is there an
American History textbook written with a multiple perspective approach? 
I mean multiple perspectives from an ethnicity standpoint; a text that
has contributions form authors representing different ethnic viewpoints
and their thoughts on various events in American History.  It is
important to note that I do not mean multi-cultural; which is often
written from the same perspective as the dominant culture and
trivializes cultural differences or simply focuses on the exotic
differences. I need to know if there is a textbook written form a multi
perspective approach - high school or even middle school. Thank you very
much.
Mark

Mark Nelson
 
Seventh Grade
Humanities Teacher