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Bhesh Mainali; Ali Sabri Ipek – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2025
Textbook is one of the most tangible resources for teaching and learning mathematics, offering valuable opportunities for both teachers and students. This study compared the mathematical tasks in 6th-grade textbooks from the United States and Turkey, focusing on three dimensions of the tasks: representation, contextual features, and cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Mohammad Irfani – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2024
This article examines school history textbooks in Afghanistan and investigates the particular ways in which conceptualizations of temporality, history, and the use of calendars contribute toward the construction of the national narrative. It investigates three generations of history textbooks, published between 1998 and 2021 under the Islamic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Shinyu Oh; Tae-Young Kim – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This study explores how English education developed in North Korea by analyzing the characteristics of secondary English textbooks published in the pre- and post-Kim Jong Un eras. We performed comparative analyses of textbooks for six secondary schools--three each for the junior middle and senior middle schools--published before and after Kim Jong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Evaluation, Secondary Schools, Instructional Materials
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Jon Magne Vestøl – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
As perspectives from the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky have made a substantial impact in the field of educational sciences, they have generated interest even in the field of religious education. To address some possible implications of Vygotskyan perspectives for religious education, this study focuses on Vygotsky's notion of symbolic…
Descriptors: World Views, Religious Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Educational Theories
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Ernst Bekkering; Patrick Harrington – Information Systems Education Journal, 2025
Generative AI has recently gained the ability to generate computer code. This development is bound to affect how computer programming is taught in higher education. We used past programming assignments and solutions for textbook exercises in our introductory programming class to analyze how accurately one of the leading models, ChatGPT, generates…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Textbook Evaluation
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Yoppy Wahyu Purnomo; Antika Asri Julaikah; Galuh Candra Aprilia Hapsari; Rina Cahyani Oktavia; Rizki Muhammad Ikhsan – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
Textbooks are one of the main resources for teaching and learning mathematics. This study examines the presentation of angle topics in 4th-grade mathematics textbooks in Indonesia and Singapore. The analysis focused on the general characteristics of the textbook and the nature of the mathematical tasks presented. The results showed that Indonesian…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction
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Christopher Jensen; Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2024
In this article, the authors explore their motivations for conceiving of and assembling the current issue on comparative religious studies as a viable pedagogical orientation for our troubled times. Situated in both the history of comparison as a method and scholarship on effective pedagogy, it argues that disciplined, scholarly, sound comparative…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational History
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Mónica Arnal-Palacián; Francisco J. Claros-Mellado; María T. Sánchez-Compaña – Pythagoras, 2024
The purpose of this article is to conduct a mathematical and phenomenological comparison of three concepts: (1) the finite limit of a function at a point, (2) the finite limit of a sequence, and (3) the infinite limit of a sequence. Additionally, we aim to analyse the presence of these concepts in Spanish textbooks. The methodology employed is…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Tarisai Chanetsa; Umesh Ramnarain – Science & Education, 2025
This article reports on the effect of textbook analysis as a tool of teacher professional development on nature of science (NOS) understanding of 10 science teachers in South Africa. The teacher professional development program (TPDP) was based on an explicit reflective methodology of textbook analysis and conducted online due to the Covid-induced…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Ethics
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Soyeon Kim; Jung Bog Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Despite increased research interest in improving students' scientific inquiry abilities, how to conduct scientific inquiry using science textbooks that are easily accessible to primary school students remains understudied. This study developed and verified an inquiry activity model (IAM) to improve the performance of primary school students in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Nicholas C. Hindy; Anthony J. Bishara; John R. Pani – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
Advances in brain imaging have led to a paradigm shift in neuroscience research, moving from focusing on individual brain structures to investigating neural networks and connections. However, neuroanatomy education still tends to concentrate on discrete brain regions. Two separate experiments in undergraduate neuroscience courses investigated…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Undergraduate Students, Neurosciences, Learning Processes
Colleen O'Donnell Oppenzato – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many U.S. students possess only a weak knowledge of fraction arithmetic. I hypothesize that textbooks are a critical reason for students' poor performance on fraction arithmetic. This is not because of what textbooks contain but rather because of what they lack. Distributions of fraction arithmetic problems in textbooks are imbalanced, with…
Descriptors: Fractions, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Mari Fukuda; Emmanuel Manalo – Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
To encourage students' self-regulated learning at home, developing skills for textbook use to overcome learning-related impasses is crucial. This study examined the effects of providing mathematics class sessions that combined teacher instruction on appropriate textbook use with peer instruction, aimed at promoting students' spontaneity and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Metacognition, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Kira J. Carbonneau; Brenda Barrio; Yuliya Ardasheva; Sarah Newcomer – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2025
The rapid growth of culturally and linguistically diverse populations in K-12 schools has increased the need for preparing culturally responsive teachers. Yet, many pre-service teachers feel unprepared to work with diverse students. With the urgent need to connect educational theory to classroom practice, teacher preparation programs have turned…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods
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Yun-Ping Ge; Wen-Jin Yang; Hak-Ping Tam – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
This study based on cognitive and social semiotic theories investigates whether the influence of specific features of instructional representation from adolescent textbook images could last until adulthood in certain cultures. Two cultural groups, Indonesian (n = 61) and Taiwanese (n = 60) college students, were recruited from a public Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Biology, Science Instruction, Evolution
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