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Opportunity to Learn Problem Solving in Dutch Primary School Mathematics Textbooks
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van Zanten, Marc; van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018
In the Netherlands, mathematics textbooks are a decisive influence on the enacted curriculum. About a decade ago, Dutch primary school mathematics textbooks provided hardly any opportunities to learn problem solving. In this study we investigated whether this provision has changed. In order to do so, we carried out a textbook analysis in which we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Elementary School Mathematics, Textbook Content
Dutch Economic Textbooks in the 1970s: Raising the Status of a New Secondary School Type by Means of Mathematical Abstraction
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Gorter, Gerrit F.; Amsing, Hilda T. A.; Dekker, Jeroen J. H. – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2016
Essential Economics, the influential economics education textbook written by Arnold Heertje for use in Dutch secondary schools in the 1970s, was characterized by a previously unknown and internationally exceptional degree of abstraction. Its users justified this degree of abstraction by arguing that it fulfilled the needs of mental schooling (in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics Education, Textbooks, Secondary Education
Shortcomings of Mathematics Education Reform in the Netherlands: A Paradigm Case?
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Gravemeijer, Koeno; Bruin-Muurling, Geeke; Kraemer, Jean-Marie; van Stiphout, Irene – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2016
This article offers a reflection on the findings of three PhD studies, in the domains of, respectively, subtraction under 100, fractions, and algebra, which independently of each other showed that Dutch students' proficiency fell short of what might be expected of reform in mathematics education aiming at conceptual understanding. In all three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Educational Change, Mathematics Skills
Textbook Questions in Context-Based and Traditional Chemistry Curricula Analysed from a Content Perspective and a Learning Activities Perspective
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Overman, Michelle; Vermunt, Jan D.; Meijer, Paulien C.; Bulte, Astrid M. W.; Brekelmans, Mieke – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
In this study, questions in context-based and traditional chemistry textbooks were analysed from two perspectives that are at the heart of chemistry curricula reforms: a content perspective and a learning activities perspective. To analyse these textbook questions, we developed an instrument for each perspective. In total, 971 textbook questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Chemistry, Textbook Content
Missing Pages? A Study of Textbooks for Dutch Early Childhood Teacher Education
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Fukkink, Ruben G. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
A content analysis of the textbooks used in the Dutch early childhood teacher education shows clear inconsistencies with the intended curriculum. Neither the content standards found in the professional profile for teachers nor the content standards from the educational profile of their training courses are adequately covered in the books. Whilst…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs, Early Childhood Education
In Search of Mutual Understanding: A Final Report of the Netherlands/United States Textbook Study.
Social Studies Development Center, Bloomington, IN. – 1984
This is a report of the Netherlands/United States Textbook Study Project, the goal of which is to improve each nation's textbooks, especially in regard to the treatment of Netherlands in U.S. textbooks, the treatment of the United States in Netherlands' textbooks, and the treatment of relations between the two countries in each nation's textbooks.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Content Analysis, Geography Instruction