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Cîineanu, Mariana-Doina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2018
In this paper, we analyse the 6th grade Geography textbook published in 2018 at the Didactic and Pedagogical Publishing House S.A., Bucharest. The textbook devised in accordance with the school curriculum approved in 2017 began to be used in schools in Romania starting with the school year 2018-2019. The structure of the book (thematic units and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Human Geography, Geography Instruction, Textbooks
Bierema, Andrea M.-K.; Schwartz, Renee S.; Gill, Sharon A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Recent calls for reform in education recommend science curricula to be based on central ideas instead of a larger number of topics and for alignment between current scientific research and curricula. Because alignment is rarely studied, especially for central ideas, we developed a methodology to discover the extent of alignment between primary…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Textbook Content, Methods, Case Studies
Sant, Edda – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
This article examines and discusses the ways in which hegemonic and subaltern discourses alternatively evoke different, and sometimes competing, notions of the nation and how they might productively coexist within the history curriculum. More precisely, using Homi Bhabha's conceptual tools of pedagogic and performative narratives of the nation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Nationalism, Case Studies
Griggs, Richard A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Given the many inaccuracies in the original "New York Times" 38-witnesses version of the Kitty Genovese story, this study examined the accuracy of this story in current introductory psychology textbooks, 50 years later. Recent studies have shown that there is no evidence for the following three key features of the original story: (1)…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Case Studies, Introductory Courses, Psychology
White, Kate; Rumsey, Suzanne Kesler; Amidon, Stevens – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2016
This article reexamines the treatment of gender and feminism in technical, business, and workplace writing studies--areas in which the three of us teach. Surprisingly, the published discourse of our field seems to implicitly minimize the gendered nature of business and technical writing workplaces and classrooms. To understand this apparent lack…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Feminism, Technical Writing
Li, Sidney C. – High School Journal, 2015
High schools across the country are restructuring their curricular frameworks to meet the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which emphasize an understanding of cultural diversity in addition to critical thinking and literacy. Despite curricular variance among high schools, the significant roles non-white races have played in constructing a…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, High Schools, English, Language Arts
Moon, Rennie – Comparative Education, 2013
This study examines how textbooks in the Republic of Korea incorporate liberal, Western notions of diversity and multiculturalism. Through a systematic analysis of 60 civics textbooks over time, this study shows that ideas of multiculturalism and diversity have dramatically increased in the South Korean intended curriculum. While in the past,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Civics, Multicultural Education
Representing Nature of Science in a Science Textbook: Exploring Author-Editor-Publisher Interactions
DiGiuseppe, Maurice – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
Current reforms in elementary and secondary science education call for students and teachers to develop more informed views of the nature of science (NOS)--a process in which science textbooks play a significant role. This paper reports on a case study of the development of representations of the NOS in a senior high school chemistry textbook by…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, High Schools, High School Students, Science Education
Kilic, Abdurrahman – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
In this study, the relationship of values in elementary school 4th grade Social Studies textbook with the attainments and their level of being included in student workbook are tried to be determined. Case study, which is a qualitative research method, was applied for this research. To collect data, document analysis technique, which is among the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Qualitative Research, Grade 4, Textbooks
Vanhulle, Bert – History of Education, 2009
The philosophical background of the subject history in secondary education has been mainly addressed through research based on "obvious" source types (curricula, discussions in committees or journals, ...). This article proposes a narrative method of analysing history textbooks in order to study the underlining historical philosophy of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, History Instruction, Textbook Content, Content Analysis
Harrison, Robert L., Jr. – 1988
The "recurring author" is one whose works appear many times at different levels in instructional units found in literature textbook series. A descriptive case study discussed the treatment of a recurring author, William Shakespeare, using units in a sample of six literature textbook series. Developed to describe, to code, and to analyze…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Analysis, Curriculum Research, English Literature
Kilbourn, Brent – 1971
Five questions are developed as an analytical scheme by which the basis for knowledge claims in science textbooks can be analyzed. The scheme is based on three conditions of knowledge: (1) if the claim is true (the truth condition), (2) if there is adequate evidence for the claim (the evidence condition), and (3) if the claim is believed to be…
Descriptors: Biology, Case Studies, Content Analysis, Educational Research

Freeman, Donald J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1983
This investigation attempts to determine if the congruity in textbook-test content varies as a function of different styles of textbook use. Across all standardized tests, instructional validity of the five styles of textbook use was far lower for the management-by-objectives model than for any other styles. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Lidstone, John Graham – 1985
This study investigates the role of textbooks in secondary geography instruction. In chapter 1, the origins and purpose of this study are outlined, and chapter 2 is a literature review of English and U.S. research that mentions geography textbooks while focusing specifically on content analysis. Chapter 3 outlines the broad case study approach…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, Geography