The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies [Hardcover]

This volume examines the present status and future trends of textbook studies. Cutting-edge essays by leading experts and emerging scholars explore the fields theories, methodologies, and topics with the goal of generating debate and providing new perspectives. The Georg Eckert Institutes 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. 

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 ContlcO