1st Edition

Textbooks in School and Society An Annotated Bibliography & Guide to Research

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Textbooks have been standard schoolroom fixtures for as long as most living citizens of this country can remember. Many turn-of-the-century students were introduced to reading through the moralistic McGuffey Readers and struggled through the rather drab and colorless pages of volumes on history, geography and civics. In contrast, today's textbooks contain not only narrative content accompanied by... Read more
Introduction Textbook Producers and Consumers Textbook and School Programs The Production and Marketing of Textboks Evaluation and Criticism of Textbooks General Discussion and Special Topics Subject Matter Content Coverage Ideology and Controversy Author Index Subject Index

Biography

Arthur Woodward, David L. Elliot and Kathleen Carter Nagel