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Direct linkYu-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
Download full textBray, 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
Peer reviewedMuther, 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
Peer reviewedShackelford, Jean – Journal of Economic Education, 1991
Reviews 21 one-semester economics textbooks using Kenneth E. Boulding's ideas for introductory textbooks. Lists 240 concepts and topic areas in macroeconomics, microeconomics, public policy, and international economics that may be covered in a textbook. (NL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Economics, Economics Education, Higher Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1989
This report, submitted to the 71st Texas Legislature in fulfillment of the mandates contained in House Concurrent Resolution 84, summarizes a study of the feasibility of an 8-year cycle for the adoption of certain textbooks and considers the feasibility of contracting with textbook publishers on a freight prepaid basis. First, 6-year versus 8-year…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Publishing Industry
Peer reviewedMarriott, R. J. – Reading, 1977
Compares the production and selection of textbooks in the United Kingdom and North America with respect to such areas as derivation of textbook ideas, evaluation of the ideas, production, distribution, how and by whom the books are bought, and limitations on certain textbook topics. (GT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Martin, Curtis M. – 1996
This geography textbook assessment is a tool and a guide for teachers and curriculum administrators who are responsible for adopting classroom geography materials. The assessment's goal is to help teachers identify the geography textbooks that are most compatible with the content goals of the geography education reform movement as stated in "The…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Geographic Concepts, Geography, Geography Instruction
