Textbooks and Stereotypes
Textbooks and Stereotypes

Summary/Abstract: The textbook is the carrier of social contents, relations and values. In the international research it is examined as the document of the era, knowledge carrier, matter of policy, pedagogic device, medium, socialisation factor and as a product. Besides knowledge forming, developing skill and ability, it mediates social values, expectations, plays an important role in socialisation. The world presented in the textbook may develop stereotypes, may contribute to consolidation or losing of the already established stereotypes. Due to the family upbringing and parental authority, generalisations originating from lack of experience and acceptance of the majority’s views without supervision, stereotypes already take shape in infancy. In schooling age, in the course of school socialisation learning of the stereotypes created by society continues, inter alia from textbooks as well. In my study I have examined the textbook as a socialisation factor with one of the research methods of textbook theory, content analysis. In my examination I would like to point out the function of the genre stereotypes within primary school Hungarian literary readers in Vojvodina. I compare the results with the results of the reader analyses made in the region.

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