| This study investigates how images in government sanctioned sixth and fifth grade social studies textbook between 1951 and 1955 portrayed Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and Japan. My findings reveal the images reflect pro-American ideology that served the political goals of South Korean government and the aspirations of the United States to create a new pro-democratic and pro-capitalist Korean society. My book project demonstrates and visualizes how complex social issues were represented and argues for the importance of "reading" images so as to reveal the way in which myth functions to make ideology appear as an obvious and commonsense understanding. The purpose of my study is to help educators reflect on images in pedagogical text so as to make conscious and critical choices about the textbooks they use by understanding the significant role representation plays in how children's "image" of the world is shaped. |
