This book examines the discourses on nation-building, civic identity, minorities, and the formation of religious identities in school textbooks worldwide. It offers up-to-date, practical, and scholarly information on qualitative and mixed-method textbook analysis, as well as the broader context of critical comparative textbook and curriculum analyses in and across selected countries. The volume offers unique and empirical research on how internal educational policies and ideological goals of dominant social, political, and economic groups affect textbook production and the curricular aims in different educational systems worldwide. Chapters address the role of school textbooks in developing nationhood, the creation of citizenship through school textbooks, the complexity of gender in normative discourses, and the intersection of religion and culture in school textbooks.

Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Educational Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. Her principal research interests are in comparative education and sociology of education, with a particular focus on political determinants of education systems in Central and East European countries focusing on citizenship and civic knowledge.

Alexander W. Wiseman is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy in the College of Education at Texas Tech University, USA. He conducts comparative educational research on educational policy and practice and serves as senior editor of the online journal,FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, and as editor of theAnnual Review of Comparative and International Education.

1. Introduction: Contrasting Perspectives on School Textbook Development and Discourse Worldwide.- 2. "Swedish" values and norms in language courses and social orientation for adult migrants in Sweden - A critical analysis of teaching materials and education from the 60s to the present.- 3. Citizenship and Nationhood in Black and White: Silences of Slavery in Textbooks.- 4. Books Have Their Own Stories: LGBTQ History in US History Textbooks, 1990-2016.- 5. Nation, Religion, and Gender in Polish and Czech School Textbooks.- 6. Citizenship Education in Polish and Chilean Textbooks: A Comparative Perspective.- 7. Shaping Civic Attitudes in Civic Education Textbooks in Poland: Globalization Processes and Fragmentation of Reality.- 8. Neoliberalism and Citizenship Education: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of Citizenship Education Textbooks in Public Secondary Schools in Canada (Ontario) and Poland.- 9. "Deleted - Repeated" or Textbook Strategies for Telling the History of Women'sEmancipation in the Time of Educational Change in Poland.- 10. Gendering the Nation: Citizenship Textbooks in Post-war Sri Lanka.- 11. Textbook Images of Islam and Arab Societies in Western Secondary Textbooks.- 12. Portrayal of religion against the backdrop of progress and modernity in US and Canadian social science textbooks from 1850 to 2010.- 13. Religiously framed nation-talk in Polish history textbooks: John Paul 2 and St. Jadwiga as national heroes.- 14. Education through a literary work as a social phenomenon in the age of experiencing the process of "being globalised".- 15. The Shift from Hegemonic Agenda-setting to Normative Discourse Formation in School Textbooks Worldwide.-