Ideas and Concepts for Using Textbooks in the Context of Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Gautschi, Peter

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“…First, a “textbooks as texts” stance examines the textual and discursive features of textbooks to explain their structural and representational styles (Hansen, 2018). This perspective stresses the facts and manifestations of textbooks, seeking to unveil how linguistic features, diagrams, pictures, and graphs are arranged, described, and disseminated by the governmental agencies of the state (Gautschi, 2018) or commercial publishers. Accordingly, this approach addresses the visual and linguistic representations of national and global events, ingroup versus outgroup distinctions, and preselected themes for the analysis.…”

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Rethinking textbooks as active social agents in interpretivist research

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2022

The Curriculum Journal

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Textbooks are artifacts. They are made, used, interpreted, and understood in a wide range of ways. In this sense, regardless of its theoretical assumptions, textbook analysis is an evolving and pioneering task as textbooks bring about manifold knowledge, relationships, and emotions. When exploring the texts, images, and functions in and beyond the textbooks, researchers would recognize textbooks as interactive subjects in the social world rather than simply as content carriers. Although content analysis has long been employed as a methodology for textbook analysis, there are multiple pathways to investigate textbooks. The paper pays specific attention to interpretivist methodologies that may allow researchers to see the textbooks' interactive performance and impacts on others and researchers themselves. First, the paper reviews and pieces together previously established approaches and orientations of textbook studies. Second, the paper attempts to build a broad framework for analysing textbooks based mainly on Prior's and Cooren's arguments about reconceptualizing documents and texts, respectively. Third, the paper explores the implications of the analysis mentioned earlier and examines two interpretivist research methodologies, including symbolic interactionism and autoethnography, to open up the possibilities of rethinking textbooks as active social agents in human life instead of repositories of information and ideologies.

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Rethinking textbooks as active social agents in interpretivist research

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2022

The Curriculum Journal

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“…In an era of diversified classrooms, cultural movements, and growing tensions, it is vital that elementary preservice teachers build the foundation of their future young students' civil rights knowledge and understanding of how historical individuals took enormous steps to acquire and safeguard civil liberties (Hubbard, 2019). However, given that it is daunting for some teachers to incorporate cultural history into lessons, particularly when there is a breadth of academic content standards that methodically need to be met, the textbook has often become teachers' main source of instruction (Gautschi, 2018).…”

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Ideas and Concepts for Using Textbooks in the Context of Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities

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Rethinking textbooks as active social agents in interpretivist research

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