[R3librarians] Wednesday Weeding Tip #4

[Cindy Franklin]

Why Weed
Africa?
Many school media
collections contain materials on Africa that are primarily biased, dated,
and inaccurate. This can result in students thinking of Africa as either a
dry desert or a hot steaming jungle filled with wild animals and savage
people that have strange customs, neither of which is true throughout the
continent. The political geography of Africa has experienced many changes
in the past decades. Media centers often contain travel and description
materials on countries that do not even exist today! 
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/archive/africa.html


Cindy Franklin 
Library & Technology
Specialist 
Region III ESC 
cfranklin at esc3.net 
361-573-0731 ext 277 
www.esc3.net/mlib 



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