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Bok-rae Kim – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2022
In South Korea, education is no longer a place for learning, but a base for preparing ideological warriors, due to left-wing ideology education and fervent and conscientious teachers' union and strong left-leaning media. Since left-wing president Moon took office in 2017, omnidirectional "leftization" of education is ongoing in society.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Political Affiliation, Political Influences
Yu-Chen Lin – Cogent Education, 2024
Contemporary educational reform discourses in Taiwan call for the modernization of education to meet the needs of society of the 21st century. The principles and rules of 'reason' that historically order educational discourses can't be taken for granted. This article uses Popkewitz's notion of alchemy to think about the principles. The notions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Principles, Teacher Role
Griggs, Richard A.; Jackson, Sherri L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
It has been 12 years since the last objective analysis of brief introductory psychology textbooks was published and 13 years since the textbook copyright period used in that study, 1997-2000. Given the importance of informed textbook evaluation and selection to the introductory course but the difficulty of this task because of the large number of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Psychology, Content Analysis, Textbook Evaluation
Marczak, Mariusz – Teaching English with Technology, 2013
This paper aims to propose a repository of pre-use evaluation criteria for language teachers who wish to introduce e-books or e-textbooks to their own teaching practices. By selectively using a set of such criteria, they will be able to evaluate to what extent a given e-book/e-textbook lends itself to utilisation within their own teaching context.…
Descriptors: Textbook Selection, Textbook Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Electronic Publishing
Tinkler, Sarah; Woods, James – Journal of Economic Education, 2013
The authors evaluated principles of macroeconomics textbooks for readability using Coh-Metrix, a computational linguistics tool. Additionally, they conducted an experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk Web site in which participants ranked the readability of text samples. There was a wide range of scores on readability indexes both among…
Descriptors: Macroeconomics, Textbooks, Readability, Computational Linguistics
McCann, Lee I.; Immel, Kathy R.; Kadah-Ammeter, Tammy L.; Adelson, Sarah K. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
Introductory psychology students at a technical college, 2-year community college, and a regional university rated how important textbook chapters or topics were to them now and in the future and how interesting they were. Importance and interest ratings were highly correlated, and the whole course was rated of greater importance and interest than…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Introductory Courses, Psychology, Technical Institutes
Geng, Lihua – International Education Studies, 2011
Textbook management in universities is an integral component of teaching management. With gradual development of university education teaching, textbook management in China universities can no longer keep pace with the steps of the teaching management, and the work of textbook management is faced up with new challenges. This article makes an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Selection, Educational Technology
Steuer, Faye B.; Ham, K. Whitfield, II – Teaching of Psychology, 2008
Sales figures and recollections of psychologists indicate textbooks play a central role in psychology students' education, yet instructors typically must select texts under time pressure and with incomplete information. Although selection aids are available, none adequately address the accuracy of texts. We describe a technique for sampling…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Psychology, Textbook Content, Textbook Selection
Wiley, David; Barr, Elissa – American Journal of Health Education, 2007
Textbooks are often a core element of curricula and delivery of classroom instruction and have long been a source of controversy. The textbook adoption process has become less about content and more about political/cultural pressure. Special-interest groups from the right and left exert enormous influence on textbook content through bias and…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Health Education, Textbooks, Guidelines
Durwin, Cheryl Cisero; Sherman, William M. – College Teaching, 2008
The authors investigate whether the choice of college textbook affects students' comprehension of the material. Forty-eight students from educational psychology courses were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (1) unfamiliar passages drawn from the textbook used in the course, or (2) comparable passages selected from a competitor textbook.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Educational Psychology, Textbook Selection, Textbook Evaluation

Muther, Connie – Educational Leadership, 1984
Provides guidelines for evaluation in textbook selection. (MD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Standards, Textbook Evaluation

Callahan, Carolyn, Ed. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1989
A survey of 62 college and university faculty determined that 77 different textbooks are being used in courses designed for teachers of the gifted. For textbooks most frequently used, information is provided about the textbook content, course levels used for, and basis for selection. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Gifted, Graduate School Faculty, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Newton, Lynn D.; Newton, Douglas P. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2006
New teachers and those without a strong background in geography tend to neglect "higher level" thinking, including causal explanations and thinking about reasons in primary school geography. This is a problem that training has yet to address effectively, at least in the UK. It could be that children's textbooks may help such teachers…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Geography, Geography Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Bray, Judith L.; Armstrong, Jane – 1986
In the fall of 1984, the Education Commission of the States (ECS) was awarded a grant from the U.S. Secretary of Education's Discretionary Fund to identify alternative state roles for improving instructional materials in mathematics. To help state leaders define an appropriate and effective role in upgrading these materials, ECS proposed first to…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Mathematics Education, Surveys, Teaching Methods

Christiano, Kevin J. – Teaching Sociology, 1990
Reconsiders the place of Peter Berger's "Invitation to Sociology," in teaching undergraduate sociology courses. Traces the success and intellectual impact of the work. Describes the image of sociology it presents. Reviews its treatment of human freedom as a sociological issue. Examines its world vision and evaluates its usefulness in…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Higher Education, Intellectual History, Reader Text Relationship