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Tang, Yan – ECNU Review of Education, 2022
Purpose: This study explores a novel approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks for elementary schools in China, specifically focusing on "Morality and Law." Design/Approach/Methods: Adopting Aristotle's "Poetics" as its theoretical perspective, this study illustrates and analyzes the mimetic approach used in compiling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Elementary Education, Textbook Preparation
Goodarzi, Ahmad; Weisi, Hiwa; Yousofi, Nouroddin – Cogent Education, 2020
With the advent of numerous newly-published English course books, textbook evaluation has turned into a very critical area in English Language Teaching (ELT). This paper aims to evaluate the English textbooks being taught in Iranian Junior high school ("Prospect" series). In so doing, an evaluation questionnaire was distributed among 27…
Descriptors: Textbook Publication, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation
Hall, James M.; Gaynor, Brian – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article reports on the design and implementation of an innovative primary EFL program in Myanmar. Begun in 2014, the program is part of the CREATE Project, a joint initiative between the Myanmar Ministry of Education and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project has involved the planning, designing and implementation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Development
Ciineanu, Mariana-Doina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2017
The introduction conveys some data on learning in India and on designing Geography textbooks in this country. The present paper is reliant on four Geography textbooks, ranging from the 9th to the 12th grade. As regards each textbook, the study considers their learning units, then analyses their structure, the unitary way of designing them, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Faure, Romain – Education Inquiry, 2011
In this article, I focus on connections between textbook revision forums between 1947 and 1952. I examine the interrelations between the textbook activities of UNESCO, the World Movement of Trade Unions, the international historian conferences in Speyer and two Franco-German co-operation projects. I thus try to understand how these interrelations…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation, Educational History
Sjöberg, Erik – Education Inquiry, 2011
The conflict between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over the name and historical heritage of Macedonia, which in the early 1990s erupted in a diplomatic and political crisis, can in part be analysed as a "history war." In this article, the Macedonian conflict's roots in and impact on debates concerning the contents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, History, Foreign Policy
Steinberg, Shoshana; Bar-On, Dan – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
In this essay, Shoshana Steinberg and Dan Bar-On present the work of a team of Israeli and Palestinian teachers who developed a history textbook that includes both groups' narratives of the same events side by side. These teachers then tested the effects of its use in both Israeli and Palestinian classrooms; for the first time, students on each…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation, Textbook Publication, Personal Narratives
Tao, Baiqiang – Online Submission, 2008
This paper explores methodologies of identifying and combating sexism in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks. The writer of this paper has found out there exists sexism or gender inequality in the Chinese high school EFL textbooks. The writer hopes that future EFL curriculum designers, EFL textbook writers, textbook censors in textbook…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Censorship

Elliott, David L.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1985
Criticizes the organization, emphases, scope, and intellectual challenges of basal social studies textbooks widely used in elementary schools. Includes recommendations for improving such textbooks and social studies curricula. (MCG)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Social Studies, Textbook Bias
Svartvik, Jan – 1987
The author of the "Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" responds to two areas of criticism of the textbook: its size and its intended audience. These aspects and the general construction of the book are discussed in relation to the information needs of the foreign language learner and in comparison with the information…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Learning
Burquest, Donald A.; Henry, Floreen Barger – 1988
The relationship of contextual background to comprehension of written texts is discussed with reference to instruction in English as a second language (ESL). A theory advanced by Kerry Stewart Robichaux proposes six possible relationships between a text and its cultural "frame." Applications of the six text-frame relationships to foreign…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Birchall, Gregory; Faichney, Gavin – 1983
Elementary social studies textbooks in the United States were analyzed to determine the sort of information they contained about Australia. Only those texts which made substantive references to Australia were analyzed; these included 4 books for level 3, 2 for level 4, and 4 for level 6. Books examined were all published by major textbook…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Images, Educational Needs, Elementary Education

Muther, Connie – Educational Leadership, 1985
Presents information on textbook design and marketing practices, and their consequences for textbook content; recommends that selection committees firmly define the role of the textbook in curriculum, and adapt published materials to their school system's unique requirements. (MCG)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Marketing
Cameron, Penelope – 1988
Guided readers are written so students of English as a second language (ESL) can read them without supervision, and graded for different levels of reading competence. A superlative guided reader allows the student to read with such comfort and assurance that he will forget English is not his native language, be willing to guess, and become…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Guidelines, Limited English Speaking, Publishing Industry

Woodward, Arthur – Social Education, 1989
Stating that the primary function of textbooks is to transmit quantity and quality of knowledge, Woodward argues that photographs and other design features should be relevant to the topic, extending learning beyond the written text. Presents recommendations for evaluating the instructional quality of textbook photographs. (GEA)
Descriptors: Civics, Elementary Secondary Education, Illustrations, Instructional Effectiveness
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