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Alia Baker Danch – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
Despite the many contributions of nonhuman animals in history, nonhuman animal representations are seldom crafted with care and accuracy in curricular texts. Because of the anthropocentric vantage point of textbook creation, the nonhuman animal is often portrayed as an object, but as our relationship with the nonhuman world continues to…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Research, Animals, Empathy
Christine Gao – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2024
This study explores the integration of military themes and Nazi ideology within the "Mathematisches Arbeits- Und Lehrbuch" textbook series, which was a prominent tool in Nazi Germany for embedding National Socialist principles in mathematics education. Authored by Otto Zoll, a Nazi Party member, these textbooks were strategically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Research, Textbook Content
Delgado, Ander – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2017
In this article I explore the ways in which migrants from other parts of Spain to the Basque Country are portrayed in Basque social science textbooks published in the Basque Country between the end of Franco's dictatorship and the period of the transition to democracy. I elucidate the role attributed to immigrants, who were culturally and…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Democracy, Authoritarianism, Migrants
Grever, Maria; van der Vlies, Tina – London Review of Education, 2017
National narratives have often served to mobilize the masses for war by providing myths and distorted interpretations of the past, while conversely wars were major sources for producing national narratives. Because national history is very likely to remain a central topic in history education, albeit in ways that differ from how the topic was used…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, History Instruction, Textbook Research, Educational Resources
Asghar, Samina Ali; Asghar, Zobina Muhammad; Mahmood, Muhammad Asim – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study aims to analyze the preface section of the fifteen English academic text book related to the field of linguistics. Researcher adapted the move structure pattern proposed by Abdollahzadeh & Salarvan (2013) on the notion of Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993). Fourteen moves were identified employed by preface authors to indicate…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Research, Linguistics, Literary Genres
Brown, Anthony L.; Brown, Keffrelyn D. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Drawing from the theories of racial formation theory and race marking, this chapter explores the durability of racial discourses in school curriculum over time in the United States. The authors' inquiry focuses on racial discourses located in two sources of curricula knowledge: children's literature and U.S. history textbooks.
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Race, Critical Theory
Skinner, Deborah; Howes, Barbara – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2013
The use of a required text is an accepted practice in most college courses, but two-thirds of the students are coming to class without reading the textbook, some of them never buying the textbook at all. A review of the literature about textbook usage and student reading habits provides a comparison between how faculty and students view the pros…
Descriptors: Textbooks, College Students, Textbook Research, Literature Reviews
Forjan, Matej; Sliško, Josip – European Journal of Physics Education, 2014
This article presents the results of an analysis of three Slovenian textbooks for high school physics, from the point of view of simplifications and idealizations in the field of mechanics. In modeling of physical systems, making simplifications and idealizations is important, since one ignores minor effects and focuses on the most important…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), High Schools, Curriculum, Curriculum Research
Patterson, George T. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2010
Social work educators require textbooks and other teaching materials that can be used in research courses to enhance student learning. Likewise, social work practitioners require resource books that can be used to enhance practice. This article provides an essay review of four recently published books representing diverse viewpoints on social work…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Ethics, Educational Policy, Social Work
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
Glenn, Norval D. – Academic Questions, 2009
In 1996 the author conducted an intensive study of twenty current family textbooks published in the United States, the results of which appeared in an academic journal article and a nonacademic report in 1997. The study included practical "functionalist" marriage and family textbooks and more academic sociology of the family books; these…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Journal Articles, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Yuasa, Katsura – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2010
English education in Japan and Korea are similar in some respects. Although both countries are not completely but mostly monolingual societies, where citizens do not need English in their daily life, they have begun to realize the importance of English as a tool for international communication, and as a result their English education is becoming…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Communication (Thought Transfer), Textbooks, Foreign Culture
Yasar, Okan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2009
This study conducts comparative analysis of the assessment and evaluation exercises in the geography textbooks written according to the Secondary Education Geography Curriculum for 2005 in Turkey with those in the former geography textbooks. In this respect, firstly, the assessment and evaluation studies included in geography textbooks written…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Textbooks, Geography, Secondary School Students
Duchesne, Ricardo – Academic Questions, 2009
In this article, the author reviews several books on world history from the 1920s to the 1940s. These include books authored by a diverse group: H.G. Wells, "Outline of History" (Macmillan, 1920); James Henry Breasted, "Ancient Times, A History of the Early World" (published in 1916 by Ginn and Company and largely rewritten in 1935); M.…
Descriptors: World History, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Research
Christenson, Mary A. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2008
This article addresses the content and use of children's literature to teach about recycling. Twenty children's books were examined using a coding system created to compare and generalize about the content of the books. It was found that although the books can be useful for providing basic information they fall short in asking children to think…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Environmental Education, Recycling, Critical Thinking