Internationale Schulbuchforschung/International Textbook Research

Internationale  Schulbuchforschung/International Textbook Research, now in its 26th year, is published by the Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Research in Hannover, Germany. and edited by its director Wolfgang Höpken. The articles are in English, with abstracts in German and French.  It deals with the versions of history being taught in schools around the world.and thus is of primary importance to the WAIS Learning History project. The fourth quarter 2003 issue is devoted to "Teaching History in the Middle East", while the first quarter 2004 issue is devoted to Algeria, especially in its relation to France. They are guides to the teaching of history in the various types of school in the Middle East. In Western countries like the US there are loud complaints that students are ignorant of history and show little interest in it.  Are the same complaints heard in Muslin countries?  In the US history professors attempt to arouse students' interest by with dramatic accounts of dramatic  events, like the assassination of Lincoln. Do Arab teachers resort to the same tricks?  What events are selected for these dramatic presentations? This whole subject of the teaching of history around the world is extremely important.  Every university and college library should subscribe to Internationale  Schulbuchforschung/International Textbook Research-

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