Textbook case: a colonial history book's influence (or lack thereof) on the miseducation of the Filipino
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TOTANES, Vernon R. (2013) Textbook case: a colonial history book's influence (or lack thereof) on the miseducation of the Filipino. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2013 - Singapore - Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities in Session 164 - Library History Special Interest Group.
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Abstract
Textbook case: a colonial history book's influence (or lack thereof) on the miseducation of the Filipino
An influential Filipino essayist once wrote that "With American textbooks, Filipinos started learning not only a new language but also a new way of life… alien to their traditions and yet a caricature of their model." This paper complicates assumptions related to this now-dominant view by examining the publication and adoption history of David Barrows' History of the Philippines (1905), a textbook printed in the United States and which was allegedly used by Filipino students for more than two decades. Using evidence related to a little-known controversy that took place between American Catholics and Protestants in the predominantly-Catholic Philippines in 1906, this paper argues that the use of history books in Philippine public school education was neither as straightforward nor as uncontested as it has been portrayed by Filipino intellectuals and historians.Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | ||||||
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Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2013 - Singapore - Future Libraries: Infinite PossibilitiesSession 164 - Policy, strategy and advocacy AND users driving access and services - Library History Special Interest GroupTrack 3: Users driving access and services |
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Divisions: | Division 4 Support of the Profession > Library Theory and Research Section > Library History Special Interest Group | ||||||
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Philippines, history textbooks, book history, miseducation | ||||||
Additional Information: | Full text paper removed at request of author. | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2013 15:02 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2014 10:07 | ||||||
URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/142 |
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