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Peer reviewedJohnsen, Egil Borre – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1994
Contends that an author's contribution to a textbook may be more or less significant, depending on how much importance is attached to curricula, publishers, consultants, and the school environment. Discusses the changing role of textbook authors in Norway and other nations. Reviews research on textbook development and textbook writing. (CFR)
Descriptors: Authors, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textWoodward, Arthur; Westbury, Ian – 1983
The European history textbooks of four authors, Phillip Van Ness Meyers, Willis Mason West, Hutton Webster, and James Harvey Robinson, are described to show how they responded to and reflected the changing nature and function of the high school from 1880 to 1930. Data for the study came from educational histories, committee reports, journals,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends, European History
