политкорректность в учебниках
Jan. 3rd, 2003 04:16 amСтатья (англ.) о политкорректности и ошибках в школьных учебниках.
Например, в новом учебнике экономики половые органы статуй, стоящих у входа в нью-йорскую биржу, прикрыли набедренными повязками:
Или, например, из фотографии супругов Кюри вырезали Пьера:
Например, в новом учебнике экономики половые органы статуй, стоящих у входа в нью-йорскую биржу, прикрыли набедренными повязками:
The cover of "Economics," a high school textbook due to enter city schools next year, sports a doctored photo of the New York Stock Exchange's landmark exterior.
With a pair of loincloths strategically inserted into the picture, publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston draped the private parts of the two heroic male figures — Agriculture and Science, by name.
Или, например, из фотографии супругов Кюри вырезали Пьера:
The famous 1896 picture of husband-and-wife scientists Marie and Pierre Curie experimenting with radioactivity in their Paris lab was reproduced in Holt's "SciencePlus: Technology and Society." But it was radically cropped to purge Pierre, who shared a 1903 Nobel Prize with his wife.И много ещё такого там.
Holt's Blake said Marie "was a famous scientist in her own right" and that "some of her most important work took place after her husband died."
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Date: 2003-01-02 08:43 pm (UTC)Take the 2003 editions of two social studies textbooks, Glencoe's "Our World Today: People, Places and Issues" and Harcourt's "World Regions." Glencoe wrote of ancient geological events that took place "millions of years ago," like the Ice Age, while Harcourt referred to fossil fuels "formed millions of years ago."
Lone Star State creationists complained that the references conflicted with biblical time lines. So the publishers dropped the phrase "millions of years ago" and substituted language like "in the distant past" and "over time."
Анатолий, ну чем не "parochial falsehood"?
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Date: 2003-01-03 05:07 am (UTC)