This article is an extension of that published in the Fall, 1987, issue of Theory and Research in Social Education in which analytic categories were determined and four series of primary-grade social studies textbooks were examined using those categories. The present study expands the earlier categories and examines two additional text series. The findings of this study reflect the findings of the previous study in that we read no texts to which we could give whole-hearted support.
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