The Handling of Migrants in Contemporary Portugal History Textbooks

Authors : Selim Hilmi Özkan

Pages : 105-132

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Publication Date : 2023-12-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study aims to explain the handling of the phenomena of immigration and the life of migrants in Portugal textbooks. Textbooks are one of the indispensable basic and classical materials of education in transmitting knowledge to students. For this reason, educators generally use printed textbooks in the classroom to communicate with students. Without a textbook, it is difficult to establish healthy communication between the teacher and the students. For this reason, while textbooks guide the teachers about the information that they are about to transfer, it gives students effective clues about how they are going to acquire this information. In this study, the treatment of migration and immigration in history textbooks taught in Portugal was analyzed. Firstly, the current history textbooks in the Portuguese National Library were procured and the chapters on migration and immigration in the textbooks were identified through document analysis method. Through the concepts such as migration, immigration and immigrants in these chapters, the lives of immigrants at home country and abroad and how they are reflected in the textbooks were analyzed. In this context, all of the history textbooks starting from primary education to the last year of high school were scanned and subjected to detailed analysis.
Keywords : immigration, migration, history textbook, Portugal