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

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...

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Superior document:Eckert. Expertise ; v.2
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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.)
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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