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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
Tyson, Harriet – 1990
Changes in textbook adoption policies in three states--North Carolina, Texas, and California--are examined in this paper, which analyzes major legislative or regulatory changes in the context of each state's educational improvement efforts. Findings indicate a growing conflict between advocates for statewide versus local responsibility for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Policy Formation
Tulley, Michael A. – 1983
In an effort to better understand the intents of those policies that prescribe state-level textbook adoption, a study collected and analyzed data from (1) the textbook adoption statutes of each of the 22 "state adoption" states, (2) documents and policy manuals produced by the state departments of education of each of these 22 states,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Publishing Industry, Reading Material Selection
Smith, Patricia – 1976
In the area of textbook selection, a school board should (1) establish a policy based on the feelings of the community, the law, and the board's views; (2) determine whether administrative guidelines reflect board policy; (3) check whether textbook choices are based on those guidelines; and (4) consider appeals in book complaint cases. Everyone…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Censorship, Educational Policy
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
Presents a fictionalized account illustrating the process by which willful states, misguided experts, cunning marketeers, and overworked teachers and administrators produce textbooks that are ill-written, confusing, misleading, and boring. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation, Material Development
Association of American Publishers, New York, NY. – 1976
The purpose of this book is to chart procedures for the selection and purchase of instructional materials and related services for the public schools. Recent developments cited as having a significant bearing on the selection process are (1) the struggle of minority groups toward new status; (2) the increased political power of parents, students,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Feminism
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
Publishers are compelled by public policies and practices to produce textbooks that confuse students with non sequiturs, mislead them with misinformation, and bore them with pointlessly arid writing. Recommendations for textbook policy are proposed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation
Fischer, Linda; Lamont, Betty – 1986
This report describes a research study for the Ontario Ministry of Education that addresses the issues of policy, expenditure levels, and patterns of use related to textbooks, library books, and other classroom-based learning materials in Ontario schools. The research is based on a survey of public and Roman Catholic separate school boards…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
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Honig, Bill – Social Studies Review, 1989
Discusses the California History-Social Science Framework (1988), in which history is at the center of the social sciences. Traces the sequencing of history courses from the elementary grades through high school, highlighting the interplay between world and United States history which provides a global context for learning. Examines the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bahry, Stephen A, – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
For newly independent Central Asian republics a debate has arisen about how much of the aims, content and pedagogy of old Soviet-era curricula to retain, how much to revise or replace, and with what. There is a need to replace and revise textbooks, which are wearing out and outdated. Financial crisis has made the financial support of external…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Donors, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Hepburn, Mary A. – 1973
In Georgia, professional textbook selection for the public schools has been undermined by a small interest group influencing the State Board of Education. Normally textbooks are selected by a professional committee whose recommendations are adopted by the Board. In 1971 "The Americans," edited by Edwin Fenton and recommended by the selection…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education