Conclusion and Perspectives

Are textbooks simply supposed to reproduce simple popular images and well-established certainties? Are they supposed to ‘box’ theoretical richness into simple formats or reduce diversity to Mickey Mouse unity, for example, by claiming that ‘realists argue’ or ‘constructivists claim’. Should founding myths be reproduced and heuristically convenient narratives outlined, for example, that the discipline has developed through a number of ‘great debates’ among grand theorists?