Overview
- Provides a systematic overview to the diverse field of textbook research and its main trends, theoretical concepts, and methodological approaches
- Stimulates new research areas and offers new methodological avenues to do research on textbooks and other educational media
- Enables researchers to contextualize their approaches within the field and to engage them in theoretical and methodological discussions
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This volume examines the present status and future trends of textbook studies. Cutting-edge essays by leading experts and emerging scholars explore the field’s theories, methodologies, and topics with the goal of generating debate and providing new perspectives. The Georg Eckert Institute’s unique transdisciplinary focus on international textbook research has shaped this handbook, which explores the history of the discipline, the production processes and contexts that influence textbooks, the concepts they incorporate, how this medium itself is received and future trends. The book maps and discusses approaches based in cultural studies as well as in the social and educational sciences in addition to contemporary methodologies used in the field. The book aims to become the central interdisciplinary reference for textbook researchers, students, and educational practitioners.
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History, Theory, and Methods of Textbook Research
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Textbooks in Their Contexts
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Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies
Editors: Eckhardt Fuchs, Annekatrin Bock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53142-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53141-4Published: 05 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53142-1Published: 04 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 432
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