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The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies
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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. 

About the Author

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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