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Illustrations in school textbooks
… guidelines and knowledge on illustrations in school textbook. The main concern of this work is to examine the effectiveness of illustrations in textbooks. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction to the topic, followed by a review of the relevant research on the subject in Chapter 2. In the third …
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Sex role stereotypes in Greek primary school textbooks
… the way in which the two sexes are presented in school textbooks. The incentive for pursuing my research was my own experience of using school textbooks and the observation of everyday reality. Until the present time research in Greece regarding the image of the two sexes has been limited to the …
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Primary school textbooks in Zimbabwe : an analysis in social context
… examination of some of the variables that affect schooling in Zimbabwe, a Southern African country. The study consisted mainly of a content analysis of selected primary textbooks for language and gender related matters. It addressed the following questions: (1) Is the material presented as if the …
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School textbooks and teachers' choices : a contextualizing and ethnographic study
… evidence that most teachers choose their class textbooks haphazardly and without evaluating them. As a result, bad textbooks are as likely to be chosen and to succeed commercially as good ones are. One consequence of this is that many publishers and authors continue to get away with producing …
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Environmetal Education in Mexico: A Content Analysis of Primary School Textbooks
… in environmental content in Mexican primary school textbooks before and after the decentralization of public education in 1993. The literature review in the opening chapter gives the background information on environmental education, internationally and in Mexico. The authors mention and …
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An Analysis of the Portrayal of Ethnic Groups in Elementary School Textbooks
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Curriculum reform and identity politics in Iranian school textbooks : national and global representations of "race", ethnicity, social class and gender
… pre-2004 editions of elementary and guidance school textbooks by analyzing how issues of identity politics, diversity, “citizenship” and development inform the construction of Iranian national identity since the introduction of various curriculum reforms (i.e.: global education) after the …
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The construction of a #national identity' : a study of selected secondary school textbooks in Malaysia's education system, with particular reference to Peninsular Malaysia
… primary objective of fostering ethnic harmony in schools in particular and in the country in general. nd it is against this backdrop that this study seeks to examine what kinds of images, ideas, values and symbols that are being selected and promoted (and at the same time, excluding other items, …
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Language and ideology: a linguistic analysis of school textbooks from the FRG and the GDR, with special reference to the role of language in socialisation
… ideology as exemplified in a corpus of politics textbooks used in East and West German schools. The theoretical framework adopted is a development of the work of M A K Halliday, incorporating also work done in other fields of linguistics, in psychology, pedagogics, political science, and …
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Power discourse and the curriculum: silences in the high school geography curriculum of South Africa
… of that society. This study examines the use of school textbooks as instruments of domination. It explores the proposition that the dominant ideology in a society is perpetuated by the discourse in school textbooks, while at the same time the voices of subordinated people are silenced within …
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Gender mainstreaming in education: case studies of Islamic primary schools in South Sulawesi, Indonesia 2000 - 2006
… policy implementation in three Islamic primary schools in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It investigated the commitment, gender ideology and practices of policy makers, school principals, teachers, and the school committees. Furthermore, the thesis analyzed gender roles depiction in the primary …
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The Missing Founding Fathers: The Need to Teach the Role of the Antifederalists in the Adoption of the Bill of Rights
… the adoption of the U.S. Constitution to high school history and government students. The cited research shows the Antifederalist role is now underemphasized in high school history textbooks, despite the fact that accepted state and national standards encourage it. The thesis includes reviews …
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The Representation of the Ethnic and Cultural 'Other' in Primary School Textboooks: A Comparative Case Study of North Rhine Westphalia (Germany) and Ireland
… of the ethnic and cultural ‘other’ in primary school textbooks in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), which has an established immigration history, and Ireland, where immigration is as a relatively new phenomenon. As a result of increased migration over the last decade, societies in both contexts …
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The school mathematics textbook as an instantiation of the pedagogic discourse of school mathematics
… manner in which textual strategy present in a school mathematics textbook contribute to the production of the pedagogic discourse of school mathematics. The dissertation undertakes an analysis of a chapter of a Std 5 mathematics textbook, and seeks through this analysis to demonstrate two …
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Education, Fascism, and the Catholic Church in Franco's Spain
… identity and Catholicism was taught in all schools, private and public. Therefore, under the guise of religion, the government used the educational system as a means of socialization, connecting nationalism and religion to promote their fascist agenda. The purpose of this historiographic …
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Tennessee Textbooks, 1889-2002.
… Most children first learn of the war in school textbooks. I became curious as to the accuracy of Civil War information. As there is little research on this topic, this paper begins the process of bridging the gap between education curriculum and the Lost Cause.</p><p>I examined textbooks …
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A Hierarchy of Grammatical Difficulty for Japanese EFL Learners: Multiple-Choice Items and Processability Theory
… the structures appear in junior and senior high school textbooks in Japan. Because processability theory is based on natural speech data, a sentence repetition test was also conducted in order to compare the result with the order obtained from the multiple-choice tests and the order predicted by …
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