TY - T1 - Westerners and others in Finnish school textbooks SN - / UR - URN:ISBN:978-951-51-2500-2; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/167465 T3 - A1 - Mikander, Pia A2 - PB - Unigrafia Y1 - 2016 LA - eng AB - This study focuses on the worldview constructed in Finnish and Swedish history, social studies and geography textbooks in Finland. I have approached the textbooks from a postcolonial perspective. This means a focus on the descriptions of global power relations, more explicitly the descriptions of Westerners and others. Postcolonial scholars have shown that education has long been Eurocentric, particularly in school subjects such as history and geography. They have also pointed out that the o... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - education N1 - PP - ER -