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Illustrations in school textbooks
… 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 part, the contents of two textbooks are analysed. Chapter 4 is a qualitative research regarding …
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Nineteenth-century textbooks and international law
The thesis is an introduction to the textbooks on international law written mainly in the 19th century. So the chief source' materials are the textbooks themselves. The study is not an exhaustive account of the work of each textbook writer, but only of his attempt to consider the law as a system. …
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Explicit Instruction in United States History Textbooks Exercises: The Role of Exercises in Navigating and Critically Evaluating Textbooks
Textbooks dominate history classrooms. Research finds that textbooks contain debatable interpretations and omit significant historical accounts. Researchers recommend the explicit instruction in learning strategies to help students to navigate and critically evaluate textbooks. The limited amount …
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Qualitative Aspects of Egyptian Social Studies Textbooks
This study considered some critical problems in the social studies curriculum in the Egyptian preparatory school, i.e., the school serving students in grades seven to nine.
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Teaching Prejudice: Mexican Americans in Texas History Textbooks
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Sex role stereotypes in Greek primary school textbooks
… 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 primary …
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Proof and Reasoning in Secondary School Algebra Textbooks
… the most popular and widely circulated algebra textbooks throughout the United States. Textbooks have a major impact on mathematics classrooms, playing a significant role in determining a teacher's classroom practices as well as student activities. A rubric was developed to analyze the presence …
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Chinese ethnic cultural expression in national music textbooks
… of this study is to examine the K1–9 music textbooks—a series of texts titled simply 音乐 [Music]—designed by the Curricula and Textbooks Designing Centre at the Ministry of Education of the PRC. The study aims to understand how China’s government and scholars frequently represent China’s …
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Queering of animal behavior in US biology textbooks
… knowledge canonized in U.S. secondary biology textbooks. Utilizing Queer Theory as a critical framework, this qualitative content and multi-modal analysis interrogated the discursive elements that construct and maintain heterosexist binaries within the genetics, reproduction, and animal …
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Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks
… functions, vectors and mathematical induction). Textbooks that were published in South Africa during this time have been found to contain numerous significant mathematical errors, especially in connection with these new topics. This project has entailed the collection, classification and …
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A content analysis of selected secondary school economics textbooks
… content of selected secondary school economics textbooks, and (2) to measure the conceptual content of those textbooks. The procedure developed was derived from the literature of economists' views toward economic education, and the literature of content analysis.
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Evaluation of health textbooks for seventh and eighth grades
<p>The problem was to determine whether health textbooks include content and material that make them valuable and important tools for a functional health instruction course. The area of this investigation was limited to sixteen health texts designed for use in the seventh and eighth …
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Landscapes of Imagination: A Critical Analysis of Art Textbooks
… study examined imagination in secondary art textbooks, both historically and in the current educational climate. An arts-based inquiry, as described by Barone & Eisner (Jaeger, 1988), investigated how imagination is manifested in some art books, how the standards movement has tended to limit …
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A Study of Definitions in High School Mathematics Textbooks
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