1995 Volume 20 Pages 127-135
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the principle of teaching history for strengthening the Counter-political socialization. In this paper, the author try to analyze the textbook, "Opposing Viewpoints: American History Series" developed by a historian, John C. Chalberg. The results of the analysis are as follows. 1) It is necessary for the students to take a critical thinking on the existing political norms, in order to strenghthening the Counter-socialization. 2) It might be possible to break the existing political norms into the individual acts and policies. 3) A critical thinking of the existing political norms for the students can be realized by tracing the process of making policies at the historical situations. 4) To reconsider the process of framing the existing political norms can be realized by analysing the opposing viewpoints at the time of submitting the individual policies.