Introduction.- Part A: History, Theory and Methods of Textbook Research.- 1. History of the School Textbook.- 2. History of Textbook Research.- 3. Theories and Methods of Textbook Studies.- Part B: Textbooks in their Contexts.- 4. Educational Publishers and Educational Publishing.- 5. Textbook Authors, Authorship and Author Function.- 6. Textbooks and Education.- 7. Educational Media, Reproduction and Technology – Towards a critical Political Economy of Educational Media.- 8. Ideas and Concepts for Using Textbooks in the Context of Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities.- 9. Ideas and Concepts on Teaching Science and Geography.- 10. Textbook Quality Criteria and Evaluation.- 11. Materiality and Mediality of Textbooks.- Part C: Textbooks and their Contents.- 12. The Nation, Nationhood and Nationalism in Textbook Research from 1951 to 2017.- 13. Transnational Identities and Values in Textbooks and Curricula.- 14. Regions.- 15. Representations of Class, Race and Gender in Textbooks.- 16. On Normativity and Absence: Representation of Lgbti* in Textbook Research.- 17. Religion as a Subject of Textbook Analysis: An exemplary overview.- 18. Research into Textbook Portrayals of National Socialism and the Holocaust.- 19. Colonialism.- 20. Concepts of the Past: Socialism.- 21. History Textbooks and the Construction of Dictatorship.- 22. War in Textbooks.- 23. How diverse are our textbooks? Research findings in international perspective.- 24. Human Rights as Cultural Globalisation: The Rise of Human Rights in Textbooks, 1890–2013.- 25. The Environment.- Part D: Textbook Use, Effects and Practices.- 26. Textbook Use.- 27. Textbook Effects and Efficacy.- 28. Textbook practices: reading texts, touching books.- 29. New Directions.
Eckhardt Fuchs is Director at the Georg Eckert Institute for
International Textbook Research, Germany, and Professor of
Comparative Education and History of Education at the Technical
University of Braunschweig. He has worked in a variety of academic
institutions and served as a visiting professor in various
countries. His research interests include the global history of
modern education, international education policies, and curriculum
and textbook development.
Annekatrin Bock is Deputy Head of the ‘Textbook as Media’
Department at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook
Research, Germany. Her research focuses are open education and
digital media. She undertook research projects covering areas such
as media change, theoretical and methodological aspects of media
use, and acquisition of skills and knowledge. She has published on
popular media, visual communication, and participant
observation.
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