Textbook quality : : a guide to textbook standards / / Ivan Ivić, Ana Pešikan, Slobodanka Antić (eds.).

• Superior document: Eckert. Expertise ; v.2
• TeilnehmendeR: Ivić, Ivan.; Pešikan, Ana.; Antić, Slobodanka.
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V&R Unipress,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Eckert. Expertise
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book is about textbooks, textbook quality and quality standards of textbooks. From a theoretical point of view, in the light of Bahtin's theory of speech genres, school textbooks are seen as a specific, complex genre, defined by the addressee. At the same time, this approach requires us to see textbooks as a cultural product. From an educational point of view, textbooks are, according to Vygotsky's theory of cultural development, a key socio-cultural aid to cognitive development in school years. Forty-three quality standards are operationally defined and explained. They can be used for co

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Preface to the English edition; Acknowledgements; Introductory notes; 1. The textbook and its significance; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Do we need textbooks at all?; 1.3 The textbook - a cultural value resource; 1.4 What is a textbook?; 1.5 The textbook, the textbook set and its materials; 1.6 The structural and organisational componentsof the textbook; 1.7 The textbook and different forms of media; 2. Quality standards for textbooks; 2.1 The quality of education and the qualityof textbooks; 2.2 The critical importance of quality standardsfor textbooks

2.3 Quality standards for textbooks and authors' creative freedom3. Catalogue of quality standards for textbooks; 3.1 The structure of the standards; 3.2 A review of quality standards for textbooks; Group A: Quality standards for textbook sets; Group B: Quality standards for textbooks as booksfor student use; Group C: Quality standards for thematic units; Group D: Quality standards for textbook content; Group E: Quality standards for the didacticdesign of textbooks; Group F: Quality standards for the languageof textbooks

Group G: Quality standards for electronictextbook components and electronic textbooks4. The use of quality standards for textbooks; 4.1 Using standards in the creation of textbooks; 4.2 Using standards in the textbook review andaccreditation process; 4.3 Using standards in the selection of textbooks; 4.4 The use of standards and the evaluationof textbooks; 4.5 The use of textbooks in the classroom; 4.6 The wider use of quality standards for textbooks ; 5. Appendix; 5.1 Glossary; 5.2 Bibliography; Authors