Politics of Identity as Theoretical Concept and

Narratives and discourses introduced in school textbooks have unprecedented influence in the process of socialization and social production. Besides the obvious goal of imparting basic knowledge about society and culture, school courses also possess latent functions that are no less significant: by means of discourses introduced in the textbooks dominating ideologies, norms, values and behaviors are reproduced. School textbooks thus are powerful tools for the implementation of identity politics, and national curricula should be examined for their role as forms of “identity politics ” (Apple and Christian-Smith 1991)