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Kent, Calvin A. – Journal of Economic Education, 1989
Identifies the 6 major elements of entrepreneurship, and examines the treatment of each element by 15 major introductory economics textbooks. Results indicate that entrepreneurship is not adequately covered, causing students to miss important understandings about the workings of the market economy. Recommends that teachers provide supplementary…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Economics Education, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education
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Piron, Robert – Journal of Economic Education, 1990
States that many economics textbooks define economic rent in 1 of the 2 ways discussed 30 years ago by E. J. Mishan. Contends that the 2 definitions are not substantially different, rendering the dichotomy invalid. Examines 15 microeconomics textbooks to determine whether they validate Mishan's categories of rent definitions. (DB)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Definitions, Economic Factors, Economics
Paulston, Rolland G. – 1993
This document argues for the utility of mapping knowledge perspectives as a kind of cognitive art, or play of figuration to help orient educators to knowledge communities and their cultural codes, and to reinscribe modernist vocabularies into post-modern ways of seeing and representing educational change knowledge. A perspectivist approach is used…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research
Orpwood, Graham – Education Canada, 1980
The lack of "Canadian content" in Canadian public school textbooks can be more easily explained by changing national educational goals than by foreign ownership of the publishing industry. Science textbooks are used to illustrate. (SB)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Economics, Educational Objectives, Nationalism
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Schumm, Jeanne Shay; And Others – Journal of Developmental Education, 1992
Presents results of a content analysis of 46 postsecondary reading textbooks to assess the texts' incorporation of features that enhance learning. Describes the use of a modified version of Singer's Friendly Text Inventory to analyze the texts in terms of organization, explication, conceptual density, metadiscourse, and instructional devices. (DMM)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Postsecondary Education, Reading Materials, Remedial Reading
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Linton, Simi – Teaching of Psychology, 1992
Reveals conclusions of an analysis of developmental psychology textbook information about television and children. Reports variability in the amount and type of information presented. Suggests that the amount of information presented has declined in recent years. Expresses concern for the textbooks' scant coverage of the effects of television on…
Descriptors: Child Development, Content Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Higher Education
Andereck, Mary E.; Dixon, Clifton V., Jr. – 1983
The purpose of this study was to quantitatively analyze the Latin American content of contemporary world geography textbooks published for United States secondary schools. A preliminary review of the literature indicated that Latin America was generally omitted from world geography texts, Central America was given minimal attention, and…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Geography
Bearden, Phernando T. – 1986
In many classrooms, the textbook becomes the main source used to determine objectives, procedures, opinions, questions, thoughts, and other items used in teaching U.S. history. This study was done to determine how the Reconstruction Era was presented in a selected group of junior high school U.S. history textbooks. The books were classified…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Course Content, Junior High Schools, Reconstruction Era
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Trzyna, Thomas – College Composition and Communication, 1983
Looks at English handbooks and rhetoric texts and notes shortcomings in their treatment of research papers. Offers several remedies. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Guides, Higher Education, Research Skills
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Quereshi, M. Y. – Teaching of Psychology, 1993
Compares a content analysis of 60 college introductory psychology textbooks published or revised between 1969 and 1975 with another analysis of 52 texts published or revised between 1980 and 1989. Finds recent texts more voluminous and more comprehensive, yet more readable than their predecessors. (CFR)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Psychology
May, Wanda T. – 1993
This report analyzes the 1988 edition of the Silver Burdett & Ginn (SBG) "World of Music" elementary music textbook series and in particular critiques the materials for grades 1-6. The study was guided by a large set of framing questions requiring a detailed examination of the series' goals, rationale, and structure; content…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Gagnon, Paul – 1987
Content weakness in textbooks is a major obstacle to effective social studies teaching. Chapters 1-3 of this book provide the Education for Democracy Project's Statement of Principles, a consideration of history's role as the core of social studies education, and the role of textbooks in teaching world history. Chapters 4-14 examine five selected…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Democracy, Democratic Values, High Schools
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Christiano, Kevin J. – Teaching Sociology, 1990
Reconsiders the place of Peter Berger's "Invitation to Sociology," in teaching undergraduate sociology courses. Traces the success and intellectual impact of the work. Describes the image of sociology it presents. Reviews its treatment of human freedom as a sociological issue. Examines its world vision and evaluates its usefulness in…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Higher Education, Intellectual History, Reader Text Relationship
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Schumacher, Mark – RQ, 1986
Educational research textbooks often portray online computer searching as available only from distant database producers, or as something students can do for themselves without assistance from a reference librarian/search intermediary. User education may be needed in this area to correct users' misconceptions. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Content Analysis, Educational Research, Graduate Study
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Nord, Warren A. – Religion & Public Education, 1989
Describes religious illiteracy among undergraduate students. Examines high school textbooks in United States and world history, economics, home economics, and biology. Finds religion almost completely ignored. Argues that the religious neutrality mandated by the Supreme Court effectively eradicates religion from the curriculum. Suggests a new test…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Content Analysis, High Schools, Higher Education
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