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Melvin Chan; Yong Leng Kelvin Tan; R. Subramaniam – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
In this study, we analyzed how scientific terms such as principle, law and theory are depicted in Chemistry textbooks used by students in Singapore. There are very few reports in the science or chemistry education literature that explicitly explore the term principle, although all three terms appear in a number of topics in the high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Chemistry, Textbooks
Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska; Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The aim of the study was to analyze the narratives of the Solidarity movement in upper-secondary level history textbooks, published between 1991 and 2018. Quantitative methods were used to measure different categories of historical figures in terms of their frequency and textual space, as well as any changes in representation over time. To explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, History
Kulvinder Nagre – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2025
The shortcomings of the current English secondary school history curriculum have been widely discussed since its inception in 2013. Less widely explored, however, are the narratives underpinning a key classroom resource: textbooks. In this paper, I review nine history textbooks currently in use in schools across the country, drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Textbooks, History Instruction
Nhi Hoa Mai; Nam Nhat Lien; Nguyen Huynh Trang – SAGE Open, 2024
English textbooks are the most pivotal learning materials in the EFL context. However, in Vietnam, English textbooks for general education are randomized by schools, which arouses a problem of whether they are equivalent for students to gain the same proficiency. This study attempts to report the differences in lexical demands and features,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
An Overview of Textbooks in the Context of Critical Pedagogy: Poverty, Unemployment and Homelessness
Latif Gökalp; Halime Ünaldi Gökalp – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
In today's world, it is a fact that some people want the poor to be helped and some people want poverty to be eliminated. One way to narrow the gap between these two situations is to know what children need. The premise of this study is to evaluate the role of secondary school social studies textbooks in addressing poverty, unemployment and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary Education, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Safete Shala – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2023
This study seeks to identify the gaps in literature textbooks related to high school cultural and literary instruction. To meet this goal, we performed a thorough study with instructors from high schools in seven different regions of Kosovo. Our research methodology included distributing questionnaires to teachers and students in high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Literature Appreciation, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
Ashley Berner; Anika Prather; José A. Gregory; Charles Kamasaki; Viviana López Green – UnidosUS, 2023
In fall 2022, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy (the Institute) and UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights organization in the country, designed a project to better understand the representation of Latinos in U.S. History textbooks for high school. Recent years have brought increased awareness that students learn best when they…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Textbook Content, Textbooks, Hispanic American Culture
Xuran Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study addresses a significant gap in educational research by employing statistical methods to measure the sequencing of different components and content topics in textbooks. It is well-documented that the structure and sequencing features of textbooks play a crucial role in enhancing students' learning. However, existing literature has…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Grade 9, Algebra
J. Parthasarathy – Cogent Education, 2023
In the present study, text presentation in biology textbooks was analyzed with respect to misconception and elements of conceptual change towards the learning of "Cell Structure". Content analysis of the lesson "Cell Structure" in five biology textbooks of Grades 11 and 12 across selected educational boards in Asia like the…
Descriptors: Biology, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Cytology
Ryan Klinger – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
Studies relating to the vocabulary items within EFL textbooks have revealed a divergence from well-researched wordlists such as the New General Service List (NGSL) (Browne et al., 2013), and the BNC/COCA wordlist (Nakayama, 2022; Sun and Dang, 2020). In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) recently…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Frequency, Junior High Schools, English (Second Language)
Lexi Xiaoduo Li – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The research aims to enhance the handling of modal verbs (MVs) in EFL textbooks by leveraging perspectives from corpora that include both native speakers' language data and the language data of individuals who are learning the language. To assess the authenticity of language in textbooks, an analysis between the native corpus and a collection of…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Design, Native Speakers
Ernest Nkosingiphile Mazibe; Marissa Rollnick – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Curriculum statements are crucial documents for guiding teaching and learning as they describe the content and skills to be acquired by learners. Textbooks translate curriculum statements into materials for use in schools. This study examines the educative nature of three physical sciences textbooks about electrostatics using the lens of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Physical Sciences, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Martínez-Rodríguez, Marta – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
The history of music is shaped through narratives that sometimes contain a number of issues regarding cultural stereotypes, historiographic approaches, Eurocentrism or colonialism. For this reason, its transmission and the way it is taught must be the object of study and careful consideration. The present research analyses -- on the basis of…
Descriptors: Music, Criticism, Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation
Munezero, Vianney; Yadav, Lakhan; Bugingo, Jean Bosco – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Guided by the analytical framework in the current literature, whereby ten nature of science (NOS) aspects were targeted, this study aims at assessing the extent to which the three physics textbooks for Cycle 4 of Fundamental Schools in Burundi represent the NOS aspects. The quantitative embedded research design which combines the qualitative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Physics, Scientific Principles
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