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Tang, Yan – ECNU Review of Education, 2022
Purpose: This study explores a novel approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks for elementary schools in China, specifically focusing on "Morality and Law." Design/Approach/Methods: Adopting Aristotle's "Poetics" as its theoretical perspective, this study illustrates and analyzes the mimetic approach used in compiling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Elementary Education, Textbook Preparation
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Pinson, Halleli; Agbaria, Ayman K. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Over the past few years, the civics curriculum for Israeli high-schools has become the centre of a heated political debate. Following this debate, in May 2016 a revised official textbook was introduced. This paper draws on an in-depth analysis of the revised official textbook, comparing it to the previous official textbook published in 2000. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, High School Students, Educational Change
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Blake, Robert; Bellezza, Annamaria; Euba, Nikolaus; Kaiser, Mark – L2 Journal, 2018
This Instructors Perspectives' essay from Robert Blake initiates a discussion on publishing language textbooks. It is followed by responses from Annamaria Bellezza, Nikolaus Euba, and Mark Kaiser.
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Publication, Publishing Industry
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Goodarzi, Ahmad; Weisi, Hiwa; Yousofi, Nouroddin – Cogent Education, 2020
With the advent of numerous newly-published English course books, textbook evaluation has turned into a very critical area in English Language Teaching (ELT). This paper aims to evaluate the English textbooks being taught in Iranian Junior high school ("Prospect" series). In so doing, an evaluation questionnaire was distributed among 27…
Descriptors: Textbook Publication, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation
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Hall, James M.; Gaynor, Brian – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article reports on the design and implementation of an innovative primary EFL program in Myanmar. Begun in 2014, the program is part of the CREATE Project, a joint initiative between the Myanmar Ministry of Education and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project has involved the planning, designing and implementation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Railean, Elena Aurel – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2017
This book is a synthesis of the complex interdependencies between user interface design of digital screen and learning process. It is analyzed the impact of digital revolution on learning, phases of digital textbooks use and development; specific features of educational system & learning environment; psycho-pedagogical characteristics of XXI…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Computer Interfaces, Design
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Burke-Smalley, Lisa A. – Journal of Management Education, 2014
In this rejoinder to "Let's Burn Them All: Reflections on the Learning-Inhibitory Nature of Introduction to Management and Introduction to Organizational Behavior Textbooks," by Robert A. Snyder (see EJ1039748), Lisa Burke-Smalley touches upon a number of Snyder's claims and explores questions sparked by his essay. She argues…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Preparation, Business Administration Education, Multimedia Materials
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Nuñez-Pardo, Astrid – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This review article addresses tensions, critiques and trends that are still latent in mainstream research on English textbooks that have looked at their intercultural aspects, which need to be explored from the perspective of critical interculturality to resist the instrumental, regulatory, homogenizing and commercial nature of textbooks developed…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Railean, Elena – IGI Global, 2015
With the emergence of digital tools into mainstream society, new applications for cutting-edge technologies enable innovations in the dissemination of information. Careful consideration of the impact of these tools is important to maximize benefits while avoiding misuse. "Psychological and Pedagogical Considerations in Digital Textbook Use…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Technology Uses in Education, Textbook Preparation
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Faure, Romain – Education Inquiry, 2011
In this article, I focus on connections between textbook revision forums between 1947 and 1952. I examine the interrelations between the textbook activities of UNESCO, the World Movement of Trade Unions, the international historian conferences in Speyer and two Franco-German co-operation projects. I thus try to understand how these interrelations…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation, Educational History
Tao, Baiqiang – Online Submission, 2008
This paper explores methodologies of identifying and combating sexism in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks. The writer of this paper has found out there exists sexism or gender inequality in the Chinese high school EFL textbooks. The writer hopes that future EFL curriculum designers, EFL textbook writers, textbook censors in textbook…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Censorship
Palmer, Bill – Online Submission, 2007
The aim of this paper is to consider some issues in the historical international development of science education making comparisons between the educational systems of Britain and the United States of America. The author's particular interest relates to the role of the textbook in science education, so this is area on which this study will…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Textbooks, Chemistry, Laboratory Manuals
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Barrow, Lloyd H. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Reports a study to assess the professional productivity of the primary and secondary authors of the 10 available elementary science textbook series as 1 criterion in evaluating textbooks for adoption by school districts. Professional productivity based on presentations at professional meetings and articles published in professional journals was…
Descriptors: Authors, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Science Education
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Woodward, Arthur – Social Education, 1989
Stating that the primary function of textbooks is to transmit quantity and quality of knowledge, Woodward argues that photographs and other design features should be relevant to the topic, extending learning beyond the written text. Presents recommendations for evaluating the instructional quality of textbook photographs. (GEA)
Descriptors: Civics, Elementary Secondary Education, Illustrations, Instructional Effectiveness
Lackstrom, John E. – 1975
Undergraduate students of English for Science and Technology (EST) are confronted, in their English textbooks, with a variety of rhetorical forms intended to convey a variety of information, including specialized rhetorics of definition, classification, and argumentation. The rhetorical form of EST argumentation is the organization of written…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education, Induction, Logic
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