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Seker, Mustafa; Osmanoglu, Ahmet Emin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Having an efficient and satisfactory economy education may enable an individual to actively participate in decision making process about economy-related issues. This is very important for democratic societies. This research aims to search methods and levels of teaching "economy" concepts prepared for Turkey 2005 Social Studies Program in…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Concept Teaching, Teaching Methods, Textbook Content
Onderdonk, James C.; Allen, Douglas; Allen, Dwight – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2009
Technology has long been employed to improve teaching and learning, although not always so efficiently and cleverly as one might wish. Advances in the teaching paradigm have sometimes reinforced outmoded, obsolete, and simply incorrect practices and prevailing understanding of the organization of knowledge. Today, technology presents education in…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Intermode Differences, Textbook Evaluation
Fitzgerald, Jason C. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
For over a century, history teachers throughout the United States have selected textbooks as the primary instructional material for their classrooms, while textbook authors and publishers have continuously produced a unified nation-state narrative that presents United States history as a series of objective historical facts for student…
Descriptors: United States History, Textbooks, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Delaney, Sean; Hsu, Hui-Yu; Mesa, Vilma – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2010
In this paper, we report on a comparison of the treatment of addition and subtraction of fractions in primary mathematics textbooks used in Cyprus, Ireland, and Taiwan. To this end, we use a framework specifically developed to investigate the learning opportunities afforded by the textbooks, particularly with respect to the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Subtraction

Swick, Kevin J. – College Student Journal, 1972
The results of this study point to the need for a reevaluation of the content and methodology of the traditional methods course in elementary teacher training. (Author)
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Course Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Learning Theories

Durkin, Dolores – Reading Teacher, 1986
Indicates that popular methods texts used in college classes are no better than basal manuals in providing guidance in how to teach comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teacher Education

Shymansky, James A.; Yore, Larry D. – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
Using the Fry Readability approach and a ten percent random sample of all reading materials from each grade level within a program, readability data were collected on six popular elementary science textbook series. Fry readability averages and ranges for the six programs surveyed are reported by grade level. (Author/MK)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

Stahl, Norman A.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Investigates the extent to which the content of 55 college vocabulary texts is consistent with current research and theory on vocabulary instruction. Recommends less reliance on memorization and more emphasis on deep understanding and independent vocabulary development. (SKC)
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Higher Education, Independent Study, Instructional Materials

Campbell, Patty Glover – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1991
Examines the table of contents and the indexes of nine business communication and five technical writing textbooks for coverage of the skills that are needed by businesspeople and engineers. Concludes that technical writing texts are preferable for writing skills, whereas business communication texts are better for oral skills. Makes…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Higher Education, Speech Skills
Dunbar-Odom, Donna – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1996
Rereading the history of basic writing can serve as a context for and a springboard to a reading of selected contemporary basic writing textbooks. For critical scrutiny, articles by Joseph Harris and David Bartholomae offer retellings of the history of basic writing, retellings that challenge the more "heroic" tellings that have become…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Basic Writing, Educational History, Higher Education

Block, Karen K. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1996
This study analyzes how educational psychology texts use case materials to enhance transfer to application, describing four methods for using cases within instruction. The texts use very different case-based activities, each with strengths and weaknesses relative to placement in the text, instructional strategy, case content/structure, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Educational Psychology, Generalization
Stibbe, Arran – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2004
Environmental education has increasingly become part of the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum worldwide. This article analyses 26 EFL textbooks used in Japan, to discover what kind of environmental education they offer, and what this says about intercultural communication in the teaching/learning process. The results show how…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Environmental Education, Asian Culture, Foreign Countries
Yore, Larry D.; Denning, David – 1989
Most secondary science courses in North America are designed to use textbooks as the primary or exclusive source of information about the content or processes of science, and most science teachers focus their instruction on a single text. Although there are many serious issues raised by the overwhelming reliance on text-based teaching/learning in…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Instructional Materials, Reading Improvement, Reading Materials
Davison, Donald G.; And Others – 1973
The report is an evaluation of the economic content and teaching strategies of social studies textbooks that are used in grades one through six. The study, supported by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation, was part of a kindergarten through grade twelve assessment of the treatment of economics in social studies textual materials made under the direction…
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Research

Birchall, Gregory; Faichney, Gavin – Social Studies, 1985
An analysis of elementary social studies textbook series showed that the images presented in the texts do not equate with the reality that most Australians experience. A more realistic approach to teaching about Australia would be to examine the lifestyles of urban Australians. Possible ways of doing this are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Cultural Images, Educational Needs, Elementary Education
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